Changing references in the Assembly file is not working

[naym_rm]

Hi 

I am writing a small add-in to copy the Assembly file and its references (.iam and .ipt).  After doing the copy I want to change the references of that Assembly. I did like the following:-

Line 1 :  ApprenticeServerComponent apprenticeServer = new ApprenticeServerComponentClass()

Line 2 :  ApprenticeServerComponent apprenticeServer = apprenticeServer.Open("D: + MyFiles + KOEL10011707_A.iam")

Line 3 : document.ReferencedFileDescriptors[2].PutLogicalFileNameUsingFull("C: + KOEL10011707_01.ipt")

Line 4 : apprenticeServer.FileSaveAs.AddFileToSave(document, document.FullFileName)

Line 5 : apprenticeServer.FileSaveAs.ExecuteSave()

ReferencedFileDescriptors[2] .. here index 2 is just for testing. Later I will iterate all the references and need to replace all the references.

In the above code, while executing Line 4, its giving an error : Unspecified error (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004005 (E_FAIL))

Thanks for your help in Advance 

Naym 

[Gruff]

Where are you writing this?

VB.NET?

VB6?

VBA?

Your code looks really odd to me.

[naym_rm]

Hi Gruff

Thanks for reply. This is C# code.

Here is a mistake ...

Line 2 :  ApprenticeServerComponent apprenticeServer = apprenticeServer.Open("D:\\MyFiles\\KOEL10011707_A.iam");

I mistakenly posted "apprenticeServer"  , but this will be "document".

Sorry for the bad looking. but I removed the semi-colon and "\\".. bcoz during posting there was an error saying cannot submit special character.

Thanks

Naym

[YuhanZhang]

Can you tell which Inventor version you are working with? And can you try the ReferencedFileDescriptor.ReplaceReference method if you Inventor is R2011 or later. Also you can try a tool named CopyDesign in SDK\UserTools\, after you have the UserTools.msi installed.

[naym_rm]

Hi Rocky

I am using Inventor 2010. I found that if I use ApprenticeServerComponent in my add-in, only then it is giving execption and found that FileSaveAs object is throwing execption. But when I tried to create a sample console/windows form application

and tried with ApprenticeServerComponent, then it can set the reference files and can also save document with the same code I mentioned. 

So thought that as I already opened the assembly in the Inventor, it may restrict operation on the file. But I also tried not opening any file in the Inventor but unfortunately from add-in it is not working somehow.

Thanks

Naym

[ALink]

Apprentice Server Component can be used

in out-of-process application only (standalone EXE,  Excel VBA, etc.)

Inventor AddIn works in one process with Inventor.

That is why you've got an exception.

See overview article in help