Hi,
I was a long time SolidWorks user until a month ago when the company I work for moved to Inventor. I started using Inventor and so far I like it but I have a few questions about using ABA/Macros, which is one of the options I think I will enjoy the most since I have a little bit of experience in the programming world; I know a little bit of C++, Objective-C, Javascript and Ruby.
Here are my questions.
1- Where can I start learning about VBA?
2- When you use VBA within Inventor, is this considered a macro, a plug-in or you are just scripting?
3- What are the supported languages and which is the most widely used?
4- Where are the APIs to interact with Inventor?
Can some one direct me to where I can read more about this concept in general?
Thanks a lot.
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Welcome to the forums and Inventor.
There is a separate forum specfic to the VBA side of Inventor here:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-Customization/bd-p/120
The sticky links to a great tutorial "My First Plug-in Training" about that side of things:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=17324828
Sam M.
Inventor and Showcase monkey
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Hi fsdolphin,
In addition to the information the others have provided, here is an additional link that covers this subject pretty well:
Autodesk Developer Network
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=1079044&siteID=123112
Of particular interest to you might be the "Porting your application from SolidWorks to Autodesk Inventor?" section at the bottom of the page.
I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com