topic How to Execute Code? in Inventor Programming Forum

How to Execute Code?

DeerSpotter — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:53:23 GMT

Hey, im brand new to inventor and i was given this code to use in my assembly. How to execute it? I never did this before.

Any help will be appreciated with a smile 🙂

I am using inventor 2010 / routing

thanks!

Sub CreateDerivedPartFromAssembly()

    'Set a reference to the current assembly document.
    Dim AsmDoc As AssemblyDocument
    Set AsmDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
    
    'Create the name of the new part
    Dim PartFileName As String
    PartFileName = Left(AsmDoc.FullDocumentName, Len(AsmDoc.FullDocumentName) - 4) & ".ipt"
    
    'Make a new part file
    Dim oPartDoc As PartDocument
    Set oPartDoc = ThisApplication.Documents.Add(kPartDocumentObject, ThisApplication.FileManager.GetTemplateFile(kPartDocumentObject))
                     
    'Create a derived part feature
    Dim oDerivedAsmDef As DerivedAssemblyDefinition
    Set oDerivedAsmDef = oPartDoc.ComponentDefinition.ReferenceComponents.DerivedAssemblyComponents.CreateDefinition(AsmDoc.FullDocumentName)
    
    Call oPartDoc.ComponentDefinition.ReferenceComponents.DerivedAssemblyComponents.Add(oDerivedAsmDef)
    
    'Break the link to the assembly
    oPartDoc.ComponentDefinition.ReferenceComponents.DerivedAssemblyComponents.Item(1).BreakLinkToFile
    
    'Copy the iProperties from the assembly to the part
    Dim Text As String
    oPartDoc.PropertySets.Item("Design Tracking Properties").Item("Description").value = _
            AsmDoc.PropertySets.Item("Design Tracking Properties").Item("Description").value
    oPartDoc.PropertySets.Item("Summary Information").Item("Comments").value = _
            AsmDoc.PropertySets.Item("Summary Information").Item("Comments").value
        
    
    'Save the part
    On Error GoTo ErrorHandler:
    oPartDoc.SaveAs PartFileName, False
    On Error GoTo 0
    AsmDoc.Close
    oPartDoc.Activate
    
    Exit Sub
ErrorHandler:
    MsgBox ("A file with the same name already exists." & Chr(13) & "You may want to delete the existing file and re-do this process.")
    oPartDoc.Close (True)
    Exit Sub
End Sub

Re: How to Execute Code?

Curtis_W — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:40:37 GMT

Hi m.teleguz1,

I think this link should answer your questions:

http://download.autodesk.com/us/community/mfg/Part_1.pdf

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

Re: How to Execute Code?

johnsonshiue — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:44:14 GMT

Hi! There seems to be some formatting issue with some capital letters in the code. When I copy and paste the code to Inventor VBA Editor, question mark follows some 'D' or 'F'letter. You should see those lines of code highlighted in red.

Here is what you need to do.

1) Start new assembly file in Inventor.

2) Save it.

3) Go to Tools -> VBA Editor -> Copy and Paste the code to a module or function under ApplicationProject.

4) Correct the formatting errors I mentioned earlier.

5) Run.

The code seem to create a derive assembly part and break the link. That is what I saw on my machine.

Thanks!

Re: How to Execute Code?

DeerSpotter — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:48:28 GMT

Thank you once again for explaining this, Can someone help me fix this code? I never coded before.

😕

Thanks!

Re: How to Execute Code?

Curtis_W — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:48:56 GMT

Hi m.teleguz1,

I copied the code you posted but didn't see any issues when pasting it into a new module. I've attached the same code in a *.txt file for you to try. You can copy and paste it from this file, and all should be well.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com