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If anyone wants to use Excel within a modeFrontier loop, its pretty straightforward. The Excel node in modeFrontier is pretty similar to the Catia node. The only real integration issue of note is that you'll need to make sure macros are enabled in Excel. I believe the school's computers default to having macros off, so to turn them on, just go the Excel Options menu (which is located in the Office main menu in the top left corner of the screen for Office 2007).  Then navigate to macro settings (within the Trust Center settings) and enable macros.

The tutorial has five required parts.

• The Catia file - Demo.part
• The modeFrontier project - Demo.prj
• The XML file - Demo.xml
• The Robot file - Demo.rtd
• The output file - Demo.dat

Your demo directory should look like this.

After a rocky start, I believe we’ve got the software working now. The following instructions are for the use of the Catia->Robot->modeFrontier workflow. These instructions assume you are using WindowsXP or Vista.

1. Install Catia V5, Robot Millenium 20.1, and modeFrontier v3.2. You will need licenses for all of these pieces of software in order for your optimization to run.