//Instantiate Presentation Class
Presentation pres = new Presentation();
//Get first slide
ISlide slide = pres.getSlides().get_Item(0);
//Add Smart Art Shape
ISmartArt smart = slide.getShapes().addSmartArt(0, 0, 400, 400, SmartArtLayoutType.BasicBlockList);
//Saving presentation
pres.save("data/AsposeSmartArt.pptx", SaveFormat.Pptx);
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//Accessing Smart Art
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//Get first slide
ISlide slide0 = pres.getSlides().get_Item(0);
//Traverse through every shape inside first slide
for(IShape shape : slide0.getShapes())
{
//Check if shape is of SmartArt type
if (shape instanceof ISmartArt)
{
//Typecast shape to SmartArtEx