topic Re: Open drawing skip user input in Inventor Programming Forum

Open drawing skip user input

CAD-e-Shack — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:37:33 GMT

I'm using the following code to open a drawing:

Set doc = ThisApplication.Documents.Open(Archive, True)

and this code to close the drawing

ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.Close True

The close command skips the typical user input that is required but for some reason I don't find the option for when the drawing is opened.

The drawing must open in order that it can update the changes that are being made to it by the code (so I can't insert "false" into the open command).

However, because many of the drawings are stored in vault I get the prompt whether or not to check the drawing out.

Is there a way I can automatically select one of the options (attachment) without the user selecting it each time?

I also am using the command

ThisApplication.SilentOperation = True

throughout the code

Re: Open drawing skip user input

jdkriek — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:27:29 GMT

My first idea would be to programatically set the Vault dialog options that you can set manually via the UI

But the only thing I could find was PromptMessageRestrictionsEnum

Btw, It's been asked many times, but with no responces:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor-Customization/Dialog-suppression-for-check-in-on-file-close/m-p/3216872/highlight/true#M36681

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor-Customization/Vault-Messages-in-Inventor/m-p/1509481/highlight/true#M14475

Re: Open drawing skip user input

CAD-e-Shack — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:35:26 GMT

Ultimately it's not the best solution, but with the options that I've been given, it's the closest that I have found.

Thanks.

Re: Open drawing skip user input

jdkriek — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:51:12 GMT

I know and given the fact that no one has come up with a solution since 2005 (Vault 4.0) - anything is better than nothing 😉

Re: Open drawing skip user input

Burnit87 — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:25:53 GMT

im doing some automated dxf exports for sheet metal, but i didnt want to click the ok on the title block promted entry

so i added the silent code before the operation, worked for me

m_InvApp.SilentOperation = True

Dim NewIdw As DrawingDocument = m_InvApp.Documents.Add(DocumentTypeEnum.kDrawingDocumentObject, m_InvApp.FileOptions.TemplatesPath() + "Standard.idw", True)