SmartAssembly Language Support for Visual Studio Code

Adds syntax highlighting, snippets and autocompletion for SmartAssembly (.tab) files.

SmartAssembly is a scripting language by Sigmaxim used to automate Creo Parametric (formerly Pro/ENGINEER).

Features

Syntax Highlighting

Colorizes all SmartAssembly language elements:

• Commands — ASSEMBLE, LOAD_MDL, SET_MDL_PARAM, EXCEL_CONNECT, JSON_GET_VALUE, ...
• Control structures — IF / ELSE, FOR, WHILE, BEGIN_CATCH_ERROR, ...
• Constants & options — MATE, ALIGN, TRUE, FALSE, WIREFRAME, SHADED, ...
• Built-in functions — sqrt(), strlen(), strmid(), itos(), stof(), ...
• Strings — double-quoted string literals
• Comments — line comments (!) and block comments (/* ... */)

Snippets

1400+ snippets covering the full SmartAssembly API, with:

• Tab stops to navigate between parameters
• Descriptions extracted from the official documentation
• Block templates for structured commands (e.g. ADD_CONSTRAINTS → END_ADD_CONSTRAINTS)

Auto-completion

Keyword completion for constants and option values used as command arguments.

Editor Behaviour

Automatically configured when opening .tab files:

Requirements

• Visual Studio Code 1.32.0 or higher
• SmartAssembly / Creo Parametric environment (Sigmaxim)

File Association

This extension activates automatically for files with the .tab extension.

Based on SmartAssembly datecode : 2026-02-03-01