topic Re: Automatically Create A Inventor Macro Button Using VBA in Inventor Programming Forum

Automatically Create A Inventor Macro Button Using VBA

isocam — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 07:40:23 GMT

Can anybody help???

Is the following possible?

I need to add a button to Inventor so that when the user presses this button it will run (for testing purposes only) notepad.exe.

For reference, please see: AutoDesk INVENTOR VBA 36 ( Add Macro Button ) - YouTube

Is it possible to automatically create a macro button using a VBA script that will appear if the document is a part, assembly or drawing?

I need this so that it is easier for me rather than manually creating a button on every inventor workstation, I just want to run the macro.

Many thanks in advance!

Darren

Re: Automatically Create A Inventor Macro Button Using VBA

bradeneuropeArthur — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:53:17 GMT

This works easier if your are creating an Add-in Via vb.net.
For your example in a drawing to run Notepad I can help you if you want.

Let me know if this is appreciated/needed.

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SReitberger — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:12:13 GMT

How would the Macro be distributed?

Basically it is possible to insert a button to the GUI via VBA. It is also possible to use iLogic with the event manager to run a VBA macro on your mentioned events. But you would have to set all this up on every workstation. So this is not a real solution imho.

As Arthur Knoors posted, an Add-in would be better.

I use VBA macros not an Add-in. Here it works something like this:
Macros are stored in a Default.ivb. This file is in Vault. The users insert the button(s) to the GUI by themselves. If there is a update in the macros I check in the new Default.ivb into Vault. The users can retrieve the latest file via Vault, after I sent an email to let them know.

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bradeneuropeArthur — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:56:03 GMT

In the past I used a executable bat file that I have run on every startup of the pc. This executable copies the necessary files from the network to the machine. This way every pc had the latest files always.

Re: Automatically Create A Inventor Macro Button Using VBA

isocam — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 06:01:10 GMT

Arthur,

Please can I ask if you would create a Vb.Net program to do this for me?

Can I also ask how much you would charge and I can I pay you "up-front" using PayPal?

Many thanks for your help!

Kindest Regards

Darren

Re: Automatically Create A Inventor Macro Button Using VBA

bradeneuropeArthur — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 08:10:17 GMT

You only need an add in with a button that run notepad.exe after pressing, correct?

Re: Automatically Create A Inventor Macro Button Using VBA

isocam — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 09:31:23 GMT

Arthur,

Yes please.

Kindest Regards

Daren

Re: Automatically Create A Inventor Macro Button Using VBA

bradeneuropeArthur — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 09:51:06 GMT

Can you send me a private message?