Error saving DXF from IDW

[fernando.paes]

Hello!

I would be very grateful if you could help me on this!

The problem is that most of times I try to save an IDW document or a flat pattern as DXF I run into the error "Component Request Pending" that says:

"This action cannot be completed because the other application is busy. Choose "Switch To" to activate the busy application and correct the problem"

If I click "Switch To" my Windows start menu opens! 😮
If I click "Retry" the box closes and then I finally get the DXF.

Question: If I'm running on SilentOperation why this msg is showed?

I've spent almost a day on this and I really don't know what to do to avoid it.

NOTE: It happens when I do it manually too. The error occurs more often when I have many applications opened.

The code is:

Dim oApp As Inventor.Application
Dim oDrawDoc As Inventor.DrawingDocument

Set oApp = CreateObject("Inventor.Application")
Set oDrawDoc = oApp.Documents.Open("C:\kn300.idw")
oDrawDoc.SaveAs "C:\kn300.dxf", True

Please help!

Thanks
FOP

[fernando.paes]

I got it! You must use CommandManager instead of just SaveAs...

Call oApp.CommandManager.PostPrivateEvent(kFileNameEvent, "C:\kn300.dxf")
Call oApp.CommandManager.StartCommand(kFileSaveCopyAsCommand)

It worked very well in Inventor 7, so I decided to move to a computer that has IV8 and all I could get from Autodesk Inventor is "Unhandled Exception" or the same old error boxes...so who can explain that???

Thanks!

FOP