is 
's interface to the world of COM,
a technology by Microsoft which enables programs to benefit from functions
provided by other programs. is 's interface to the world of COM,
a technology by Microsoft which enables programs to benefit from functions
provided by other programs.
can also be used to remote control other programs,
e.g. Rhino 3D, CATIA or any other program. With
you are able to instruct for example CATIA to perform special tasks, such as open and
save a file or
draw a line. You can also program a little
VBA-Script in CATIA which for example instructs to do calculations with some specified
geometry. is full-featured by the script language 
,
therefore you don't need VBA-Scripts in LucidShape to use COM on other programs.
You can even create your own plugin
with your own C++ functions.
