I am new to Journal programming for NX but am experienced in C# Programming. I can't seem to find the correct technique for accessing tool information within NX. What I am trying to do is pretty straightforward, I want to select a tool in the "Machine Tool View" (Just Highlight it) and I want to Display the Information about the tool (such as the Tool #, Description, Projection, Holder, etc...) through a NX Dialog or Windows Dialog. Doesn't matter which as I want to achieve that first and then set up the Journal to export the data in an existing .doc file that contains other tools used on the job for the part. I will take care of that without issue (I Hope!) so I just need some pointers for accessing the NX information and getting it to display so I can see it for now.
I'm not sure if I am going to have to actually select the tool and open the tool editing dialog, if I can just leave it highlighted, or if I will have to iterate through all the tools in the "Machine Tool View" and pick out the one I need through an UI yet to actually be able to do what I want to do. Suggestions??
Any help would be much appreciated!