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Display thumbnail of an Inventor part in an Excel spreadsheet
Display thumbnail of an Inventor part in an Excel spreadsheet
Is there an ActiveX object I can stick in an Excel spreadsheet cell that
will display the thumbnail contained in an Inventor file? I'm talking about
a live thing that would load the thumbnails each time the spreadsheet is
opened, not just a static snapshot at the time I put it in the cell.
I recall there was an ocx for the AutoCAD thumbnail, that I wrote into a VB6
app, so was wondering if one was available for Inventor files.
"Sean Dotson" wrote in message
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Apprentice can retrieve the thumbnail so it should be possible. However if
you get too many thumbnails it could bring it to a crawl pretty quickly.
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Sean Dotson, PE
RND Automation & Engineering
www.RNDautomation.com
www.mcadforums.com
Thanks very much Sean. Unfortunately they won't let me have access to the
Inventor 11 disk yet. It's not available in the IV10 install folder either.
Have to put this on the back burner, but thanks for the reply.
"Sean Dotson" wrote in message
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Apprentice is this control. You use Apprentice to access properties of IV
files from outside of IV.
If you can work with just the thumbnails, you can use:
http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/iCode/IVPreview+Jpeg.zip to extract them
or you could use the BOM Extractor:
http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/iCode/BomXTractor.htm to export an Excel
spread sheet that has some code for viewing the thumbnails in Inventor
files. Run it once, create an Excel file and look at the VBA embedded
in it. You should be able to grab that VBA code and modify / use it in
your excel file to get what you want. The install of the BOM Extractor
should install the ActiveX control that you need.
John-IV10SP3a wrote:
>Is there an ActiveX object I can stick in an Excel spreadsheet cell that
>will display the thumbnail contained in an Inventor file? I'm talking about
>a live thing that would load the thumbnails each time the spreadsheet is
>opened, not just a static snapshot at the time I put it in the cell.
>
>
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