Starting Inventor from another machine

[Anonymous]

I have a VB.net program that starts Inventor and creates an assembly. Could anyone tell me if it would be possible to run this application from another workstation on our network. Salesmen create some data with their configurator.  I'd like to have then click a button and start Inventor on another workstation or server and create a model for them. My program does this but I don't know if/how to run it from another machine. Obviously I don't want to install Inventor on salesman's machines. I know this is likely more a VB question and I've search but no luck. Any direction is appreciated. Thanks.

Rosco

Inventor 2013

Visual Studio 10

WIndows 7 

[jdkriek · Accepted solution]

Yes, I've do this in a few applications a few diffrent ways.

1. Simply use WMI to start Inventor on the Remote Machine

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389769(v=VS.85).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389388(v=vs.85).aspx

OR

2. Call a batch/cmd script on the remote machine that opens Inventor

Either way, you would remote like this:

Try
    Dim options As New System.Management.ConnectionOptions
    options.Username = userNameBox.Text
    options.Password = passwordBox.Text

    Dim path As New System.Management.ManagementPath("\\" + ip + "\root\CIMV2:Win32_Process")
    Dim scope As New System.Management.ManagementScope(path, options)
    Dim opt As New System.Management.ObjectGetOptions()
    Dim classInstance As New System.Management.ManagementClass(scope, path, opt)

    Dim inParams As System.Management.ManagementBaseObject = classInstance.GetMethodParameters("Create")
    inParams("CommandLine") = ExeBox.Text

    ' Execute the method and obtain the return values.
    Dim outParams As System.Management.ManagementBaseObject = classInstance.InvokeMethod("Create", inParams, Nothing)

    Return "ReturnValue:" & outParams("returnValue") & " Process ID: {0}" & outParams("processId") & " IP = " & ip
    Catch err As Exception
    execproc = "Starting process has been failed on " & ip & " " & err.Message
    MessageBox.Show("An error occured while trying" & _
    " to execute the WMI method: " & err.Message)
End Try

[Anonymous]

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jdkriek wrote:

Yes, I've do this in a few applications a few diffrent ways.

1. Simply use WMI to start Inventor on the Remote Machine

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389769(v=VS.85).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389388(v=vs.85).aspx

OR

2. Call a batch/cmd script on the remote machine that opens Inventor

Either way, you would remote like this:

Try
    Dim options As New System.Management.ConnectionOptions
    options.Username = userNameBox.Text
    options.Password = passwordBox.Text

    Dim path As New System.Management.ManagementPath("\\" + ip + "\root\CIMV2:Win32_Process")
    Dim scope As New System.Management.ManagementScope(path, options)
    Dim opt As New System.Management.ObjectGetOptions()
    Dim classInstance As New System.Management.ManagementClass(scope, path, opt)

    Dim inParams As System.Management.ManagementBaseObject = classInstance.GetMethodParameters("Create")
    inParams("CommandLine") = ExeBox.Text

    ' Execute the method and obtain the return values.
    Dim outParams As System.Management.ManagementBaseObject = classInstance.InvokeMethod("Create", inParams, Nothing)

    Return "ReturnValue:" & outParams("returnValue") & " Process ID: {0}" & outParams("processId") & " IP = " & ip
    Catch err As Exception
    execproc = "Starting process has been failed on " & ip & " " & err.Message
    MessageBox.Show("An error occured while trying" & _
    " to execute the WMI method: " & err.Message)
End Try

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you do this at your work to make template models from sales? does it work good? i like try to

[Anonymous]

hey you no anser to help me... i do search

very funny you code look like this one...

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/9c03a9a7-55cc-4c7d-978e-36f453423b2b/remote-execute