Run an Addin from VB

[Anonymous]

Morning and a Happy New Year to All,

It seems that it is never too early in the year to be baffled by Inventor and VB!

I am writing an external program to place various iFeatures into a model, from a custom UI.

Sometime previous to my starting at the company, an Addin was written to add crosshairs and a work point when an iFeature is added manually (this is to allow some compatibility with EdgeCam I believe).

When my program puts in an iFeature, the addin doesn't run (presumably because the triggers aren't being fired from my program).

Is there any (easy) was to get trigger an addin event - something along the lines of

invApp.Addins("iFeaure Addin").Run

or is it going to be easier to rewrite the iFeautre addin (to which I don't have the code)?

As always, any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂

Jon

[philippe.leefsma · Accepted solution]

Hi Jon,

This is only doable if the addin expose a COM callable interface. So if it doesn't and you don't have the source code, then I'm affraid you will have to rewrite it yourself.

Here are couple of links you may find helpful:

http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2012/07/connecting-an-inventor-addin-from-an-external-ap...

http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2012/07/connect-to-an-inventor-add-in-an-external-applic...

Regards,

Philippe.

[Anonymous]

Hi Philippe,

 Very useful reading, and a new source of information.

Thanks

Jon