DARS (Data Access Routines) VS PML?

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in Customization User Manual:

The Data Access Routines are a set of FORTRAN 77 subroutines which may be incorporated into user-written software for the purposes of navigating and manipulating the data held within a PDMS project. The anticipated use of this facility will be the creation of interfaces to other software packages, e.g. material take-off, pipe stress, isometrics, etc.

What are the Pros and Cons of DARS compared to PML and PML.NET?

Mohammad Refaie over 2 years ago

Hello Corrado Galluzzi Léo SALVADOR ,

Could you please advise?

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Léo SALVADOR over 2 years ago in reply to Mohammad Refaie

Hello Mohammad,

To access Aveva databases from an external application, I have used DARS very little in comparison of the Standalone interface in .Net ( https://help.aveva.com/AVEVA_Everything3D/3.1/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=NCUG/NCUG10.09.1.html ).

With the Standalone interface, you can directly use Aveva's .NET API from your external application, which should, in my opinion, be much easier to handle than data retrieved from DARS.

I would tend to say that DARS can have an advantage if you have a particular interest in using FORTRAN in your application, or if performance is a primiary consideration. In other cases, the Standalone interface is more flexible and better adapted to modern applications.
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Mohammad Refaie over 2 years ago in reply to Léo SALVADOR

Léo SALVADOR, thanks for your response.

I don't have an interest in FORTRAN, but I thought it might have a deeper control for PDMS & E3D core, and I could control things I can't control using PML, especially those related to ISODRAFT.
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