topic Re: VB Code to Disable / Bypass Update Prompt at File Open in Inventor Programming Forum

VB Code to Disable / Bypass Update Prompt at File Open

Anonymous — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:48:47 GMT

Using Inventor 2012, I am writing VB code that opens, updates, changes parameters, and saves and closes a file.

My process so far opens one file, updates the parameters, saves, then opens the assembly file linked to the previous file to update, save, and close. The trouble I'm having is when I open the second file, Inventor prompts me to update the assembly, and won't do anything until I click yes (see attachment). Is there a way to either disable this prompt, or add VB code that would click YES everytime to update the file? Or perhaps a setting within Inventor that automatically saves and updates when you open instead of doing it in VB code?

Similarly, when the assembly file closes, it asks if I want to save it AND all the parts included in the assembly. I want it to click YES everytime to make sure it saves.

Through a web search, I found the .DisplayAlerts = True/False line, but it does not appear to work in my code

(i.e. if I use _invApp.DisplayAlerts = False).

My code for opening the second file (the .iam file) is basic and simplistic, as I am still new to this and learning.

_invApp.Documents.Open("filename.iam")

_invApp.ActiveDocument.Update()

_invApp.ActiveDocument.Save()

Thanks for reading all this and thanks in advance!

Re: VB Code to Disable / Bypass Update Prompt at File Open

ekinsb — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:21:18 GMT

Try the Application.SilentOperation. When this property is set to True all dialogs should be suppressed. A default answer has been defined for all dialogs and when this is True the default will be used. You'll probably need to test it a bit to verify that the default is what you want, but it typically is.

Re: VB Code to Disable / Bypass Update Prompt at File Open

Anonymous — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:48:06 GMT

That worked! Thanks so much!

Re: VB Code to Disable / Bypass Update Prompt at File Open

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 17:04:01 GMT

Hello,

I'm facing the same issue.

I've created a part and and assembly. The assembly is linked to the part (= the parameters are in the part and the assembly get these).

Through an Userform VBA I would like, at the same time, to update the part (I've done) and the assembly and the related .idw.

Could you kindly share your code,

Alberto