NX Open Python Reference Guide — Overview

This book is a pure Doxygen-generated API reference for the NXOpen Python module tree (product id 209349590, book id nxopen_python_ref). Unlike the NX Open Programmer's Guide, it contains no narrative/prose content — the "Main Page" is blank except for a copyright line, and "Related Pages" contains only a "Deprecated List" stub. There is no Python-vs-other-language comparison text inside this book itself; if that kind of guidance exists, it lives in the NX Open Programmer's Guide or the NX Open Getting Started Guide, not here.

Structure

The guide is organized as:

• Packages (namespaces.html) — flat list of ~60 top-level namespaces under the root NXOpen namespace, each described only as "Classes, Enums and Structs under NXOpen.<Name> namespace" (no richer one-line purpose text is provided by Doxygen for any of them — this is the actual extent of the "description" data available).
• Classes (annotated.html / classes.html / hierarchy.html) — global class list, alphabetical class index, and class hierarchy tree.
• Class Members (functions*.html) — an alphabetical member-name index across all classes (for finding which class(es) define a given method name).

See 01-namespace-index.md in this folder for the full namespace list.

Extraction limitation (important for future sessions)

Only three pages in this book proved reachable during scraping: index.html (Main Page), namespaces.html (Packages), and pages.html (Related Pages) — all three came back correctly through the signed content-host iframe. Every other page tried — the root namespaceNXOpen.html, a per-namespace page (namespaceNXOpen_1_1BlockStyler.html), and the global annotated.html class list — returned a clean S3 AccessDenied XML body, even when:

• setting the content iframe's .src directly to the relative URL,
• doing so immediately after a fresh top-level page load (ruling out a short-lived signature expiring),
• navigating the whole tab directly to the fully-qualified content-host URL (this one hit the extension's own sandbox block for cookie/query-bearing navigation instead).

Doxygen's left-nav "Packages"/"Classes" tree in this book is not a plain <a href> tree (no matching anchors were found in the frame's DOM), so it could not be driven by real link clicks either — it appears to be rendered by tree.js against a JS data file, and whatever mechanism it uses client-side to fetch child pages was not reproduced by scripted .src assignment.

Conclusion: for this specific book, only the top-level namespace list is extractable via the techniques available in this session. A future session should try: (a) driving actual mouse clicks via computer on the rendered tree-view triangles/labels (screen-coordinate clicks may trigger the site's real click handler and any associated signing XHR, unlike a scripted el.click() or .src= write), or (b) capturing the tree.js data file directly (Doxygen typically emits a namespaces_dup.js / menudata.js with the full tree as embedded JSON, which might load fine as a <script src> even where whole HTML pages get AccessDenied).