Opening Inventor Part File

[mconley]

I am trying to open an Inventor part file from a VBA program in Excel. I can figure out how to open an AutoCAD drawing but when I try something similar to open an Inventor part file, it will not work.

This will work to open an AutoCAD file -

Dim CADObject As Object
Set CADObject = GetObject("C:\temp\96.dwg")

but this will not work to open an Inventor Part file

Dim INVENTOR_Part As PartDocument
Set INVENTOR_Part = GetObject("C:\Inventor _ Tutorial\Marker.ipt")

I am new to VBA so please pardon me if this is obvious.

Thanks

[SRayC]

Give this a try. I am using this with a VB stand alone routine.
Public oApp As Inventor.Application

On Error Resume Next
Set oApp = GetObject(, "Inventor.Application")
If Err Then
MsgBox "Inventor must be running."
End
End If

Set oDoc = oApp.Documents.Open("d:\inventor work\work\20x20cover.ipt", True)