Smart Electrical enables you to use API programming. Make sure that you install the Smart Electrical Programming Reference when installing Smart Electrical.
To access the Smart Electrical Programming Reference, do the following:
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In Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 or 2013, select Help > View Help > Smart Electrical Programming Reference. For later versions of Microsoft Visual Studio the help viewer is not installed by default. To install the viewer, see Using the Visual Studio Microsoft Help Viewer.
The Smart Electrical API allows you to do the following:
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Create an application that can access and use Smart Electrical data,
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Create custom commands in Smart Electrical.
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Customize Smart Electrical reports.
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Expand the capabilities of custom validation and calculation in Smart Electrical.
Using API programming for Smart Electrical does not hold an additional seat if you use API while running Smart Electrical. However, if you use API programming without running Smart Electrical, an additional seat is held until exiting API programming.