Installing
The STEP Python API is distributed as a Python wheel, which you can
install with pip
. Simply download the wheel file and run
the following.
> pip install steptools-<version-info>.whl
Some operations require a STEP Tools license key. You can request a key with the following form:
https://www.steptools.com/register/
The form needs the hostid of your machine, which you can find with the following snippet of python code. You can find more information about keys and instructions for installing them here.
from steptools import step
print ("Hostid: ", step.key_hostid())
----------
Hostid: 123abcde
Import Module
The interface is given by the step
module. This
defines the high level API classes and the low level data classes. In
your code, simply import this from the steptools
package
as shown:
from steptools import step
For more concise programming, you may also want to alias the high-level API classes as follows:
from steptools.step import AptAPI as apt from steptools.step import ToleranceAPI as tol