topic Re: Selecting 2D point from active sketch in inventor? in Inventor Programming Forum

Selecting 2D point from active sketch in inventor?

mucip — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:57:36 GMT

Hi,

I'm using Inventor 2013 and VB-Express. I have form to do something. When I press the button on this form, I want to select two point from the active sketch and draw rectangle between these points. Every time user need to select by mouse.

How can I make user to select 2Dpoint intereactively from the active sketch?...

Regards,

Mucip:)

Re: Selecting 2D point from active sketch in inventor?

adam.nagy — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:40:58 GMT

Hi,

Have a look at this post. The mouse events part might work inside the Sketch environment as well:

http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2013/02/pick-a-point.html

Cheers,

Re: Selecting 2D point from active sketch in inventor?

mucip — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:10:12 GMT

Hi Adam,

Thanks for your kind interest. Infact, I have seen this blog in Google search but I couldn't understand how can I do this in VB-Express API?... Especially the mouse event?!...

Is there guidence sample for VB-Express API to pick point?...

Regards,

Mucip:)

Re: Selecting 2D point from active sketch in inventor?

adam.nagy — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:07:34 GMT

Hi Mucip,

Just to clarify, the Inventor API is not specific to VB Express, it's the same everywhere.
Event handling is not specific to VB Express either, but to the programming language: in your case VB / VB.NET

There is a VB.NET sample in the SDK that should help you get started with implementing what you want:

"C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2015\SDK\DeveloperTools\Samples\VB.NET\Standalone Applications\Inventor\UserInteraction"

Cheers,

Re: Selecting 2D point from active sketch in inventor?

mucip — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:26:41 GMT

Hi Adam,

it would be perfect if I have Inventor 2015 but I use still 2013 unfortunately... 😞

Is there any other alternative in case of check this code which you explain to me?...

Regards,

Mucip:)

Re: Selecting 2D point from active sketch in inventor?

mucip — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 13:29:10 GMT

Hi Adam,

I saw many post in this forums that the VBA code doesn't work with API.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/addin-doevents-doesn-t-work/m-p/4329286/highlight/true#M45026

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/doevents-and-vb-net-selection/m-p/2006589/highlight/true#M21434

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/mouse-event-does-not-work-in-2011-2009-no-problems/m-p/2763164/highlight/true#M33063

I will try to find API version of this code...

Maybe you may publish the API version of the code which you target me above...

Regards,

Mucip:)

Re: Selecting 2D point from active sketch in inventor?

mucip — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:21:27 GMT

Hi,

I found below code from İnventor Programing help section but not work?!...

Dim Nokta As Inventor.Point2d

'Dim Nokta As object

Nokta = Form1.inv_App.CommandManager.Pick(SelectionFilterEnum.kSketchPointFilter, "Select the point...")

MsgBox("Seçilen: " & Nokta.X)

When I set is as object then it works... How can I convert object to point?...

Regards,

Mucip:)

Re: Selecting 2D point from active sketch in inventor?

ekinsb — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 05:24:31 GMT

The type of object being returned is a SketchPoint not a Point2D object. This should work.

Dim Nokta As Inventor.SketchPoint

Nokta = Form1.inv_App.CommandManager.Pick(SelectionFilterEnum.kSketchPointFilter, "Select the point...")

If you need the position of the sketch point you can use its Geometry property which returns a Point2D object.

Re: Selecting 2D point from active sketch in inventor?

mucip — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:58:46 GMT

Dear Brian,

This the code which I need exactly... Thanks... 😉

Regards,

Mucip:)

Re: Selecting 2D point from active sketch in inventor?

kagum93 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:38:06 GMT

Hi, sorry for digging up the topic.
Do you perhaps remember how you wrote this code? Is the snippet suggested by @ekinsby the whole code or just part of the larger code? Was it written in ilogic editor or in VBA? Thanks in advance for your reply.

Re: Selecting 2D point from active sketch in inventor?

mucip — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:11:38 GMT

Dear kagum94,

It's been 10 years and I don't remember sharp sorry.

But I was using Visual Basic and Inventor API.

Regards,

Mucip:)