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Design Assistant and VB

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:22:54 GMT

We take a drawing and the associated part file and copy it to a new location then use Design Assistant to rename the drawing and then rename and re-path the part to the new drawing. This allows us to have a stock basic part with all the dimensions already in place.

Is it possible to use VB to drive the Design Assistant to process these tasks? If so some sample code would be helpful. Or is Design Assistant even needed to do this if using VB?

Thanks in advance for any assistance with this.

Allen

Re: Design Assistant and VB

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:09:15 GMT

Just did a large project in VB, where I copy a lot of idw, iam, ipt, ipn's. Í have attached the frm. Don't know if it's the right way to do it, but i works and that the main thing for me... Find the sub Ny_ref, it's here i'm replace the refenrence. LAsse "AllenG" skrev i en meddelelse news:32261431.1095175404286.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum1.autodesk.com... > We take a drawing and the associated part file and copy it to a new location then use Design Assistant to rename the drawing and then rename and re-path the part to the new drawing. This allows us to have a stock basic part with all the dimensions already in place. > > Is it possible to use VB to drive the Design Assistant to process these tasks? If so some sample code would be helpful. Or is Design Assistant even needed to do this if using VB? > > Thanks in advance for any assistance with this. > > Allen Attachment not added (content type not allowed): "Rename.frm"

Re: Design Assistant and VB

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:05:04 GMT

thx Lasse, The attachment didn't come thru, please e-mail to design_inventor@hotmail.com

Re: Design Assistant and VB

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:43:16 GMT

Lasse,

I also am trying to find a way past the design assistant within VB - doing the exact same thing you have done. Could you please e-mail me the form as well at: mhwood@cleecook.com.

Thanks,

Re: Design Assistant and VB

Bronislav.Simunek — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:40:12 GMT

LAsse,
I would like to ask you for the mentioned form with code as well. Creating the whole app seems to be the only workaround to get to the events in DA :-(.
TIA
Bron

Re: Design Assistant and VB

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:22:32 GMT

COULD YOU SEND ME THE CODE YOU REFER TO
THANKS IN ADVANCE

Re: Design Assistant and VB

naresh_kalyan — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:14:28 GMT

Dear Lasse,
Could you plz send the code to naresh_kalyan@sify.com
Thanks in advance.

NKalyan

Re: Design Assistant and VB

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:36:46 GMT

Sir it looks like your the man, I just found your post to AllenG.
Apparently you have written a VB routine to bypass the design assistant. Could you send me a copy of the code at alex.templeman@gmail.com or have you put it some place I could down load it?

Thank you in advance!!

Re: Design Assistant and VB

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:31:28 GMT

Hi Lasse, I have large projects also as you mentioned. This macro sounds great could you please send me the form code too. Thank you so much in advance. email: tim.dench@leggett.com

Re: Design Assistant and VB

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:07:15 GMT

I do the same thing ,could you give me some code ?weiweiduoduo@hotmai.com
cheers.
weiwei

Re: Design Assistant and VB

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:54:47 GMT

I've been searching for 40 hours for this solution. Could someone also send the attachment to markkonst@hotmail.com??

Thanx in advance,
Mark

Re: Design Assistant and VB

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:56:55 GMT

I've been searching for 40 hours for this solution. Could someone also send the attachment to markkonst@hotmail.com??

Thanx in advance,
Mark

Re: Design Assistant and VB

shastu — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:40:00 GMT

I would like to see it as well. shastu@bradburyco.com

Re: Design Assistant and VB

MechMachineMan — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 21:42:16 GMT

I kind of wish I was ambitious enough to monetize my macros.

Definitely have a renamer that renames associated drawins/ipns/assemblies and retains references.

Re: Design Assistant and VB

niranjan934 — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 03:18:29 GMT

Iam also for this code. Could you Please share the code for this Mail : addagatlaniranjan301@gmail.com

Re: Design Assistant and VB

mseveroLXMQ8 — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 11:27:04 GMT

I'd love this code to. Please email to: msevero@silent-aire.eu.

Thanks

Re: Design Assistant and VB

NachoShaw — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:20:45 GMT

you all have access to the Inventor SDK toolkit that has tool examples and source code. you can find them here

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2022\SDK\

As for what you are trying to do, look here

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2022\SDK\UserTools\CopyDesign\Bin

You browse to the design (Assembly or drawing), rename it, optionally add a prefix to the copied files and a new version is created. I used the code on a project and it did exactly what i needed.