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Reg. .NET API in Autodesk Inventor

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Anonymous
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Reg. .NET API in Autodesk Inventor

Hi,

 

In AutoCAD there are two types of API available as listed below ::

 

1. COM API

2 .NET API

 

So in  Inventor are there any .NET API available ?

 

because the api named "Autodesk.Inventor.Interop.dll" is a COM API.

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ekinsb
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Inventor exposes a COM API.  However, Microsoft provides utilities to create .Net wrappers over a COM API to allow the API to be used by .Net languages.  This works very good and is what most people are using now to write add-ins for Inventor.  The exception to this is those using C++ where it's still easier to use the COM API.


Brian Ekins
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