topic New Part Units in Inventor Programming Forum

New Part Units

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:37:03 GMT

First day programing VB.net API for inventor, So Yes this a Noob Question

I using code similar to add a new part to an instance of Inventor, and it works OK. The problem is it is using the Metric Template instead of Imperial Template. I have check and confirmed my application preferences and they reflect "inches". Inve is the Variable name for my Inventor.Application. Thank You in advance

Set Part = Inve.Documents.Add(kPartDocumentObject)

Re: New Part Units

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:48:36 GMT

I have found a Solution by changing the code to:

Part = Inve.Documents.Add(kPartDocumentObject, "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2013\Templates\Standard.ipt")

But is there cleaner way of doing it?

Re: New Part Units

adam.nagy — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:29:02 GMT

Hi,

You can use the Application.FileManager.GetTemplateFile to get the default template.

Like in this blog post:

http://modthemachine.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/01/c-help-examples-for-sheet-metal.html

Cheers,