Referencing the Alibre Design API

Your application needs to know that you want it to communicate with Alibre Design. This communication takes place through a technology called COM (pronounced like "kahm" as a word instead of spelled). You make your application aware of Alibre Design by "adding a reference" to the Alibre Design COM-compliant components already installed on your system.

From the Project menu, select "Add Reference..." and click on the COM tab so show all the COM compliant components that are registered on your computer. Scroll down to select "Alibre Automation Type Library" from the list and then click OK to add the reference.