Glyph is a great way to get more out of Pointwise. The scripts provided by Pointwise are excellent: both to make you more productive (for instance, we strongly recommend you make Block-Diagnose a standard part of your simulation-documentation) and to look for examples of different API functions.
We use several smaller Glyph utilitities in our training sessions. Intended to illustrate, these are more verbose and – we think – easier to understand if you’re not an expert programmer.