Registering Custom Plugin Advance Steel 2019

[wagnermichaeljames]

What is the correct method for registering a 3rd-party plugin (.dll written in C#) wwith Advance Steel 2019?

The API documentation prescribes 3 different plugin registration methods for Advance Steel 2017+, however none of them have so-far worked. All of them involve making a ASSettings_Advance.xml file and then putting it different folders.
I've tried:
1) editing the registry key with the path to the ASSettings_Advance.xml file
2) Simply creating an Addons folder, in main AS installation folder, which contains the xml file.
3) Placing ASSettings_Advance.xml in the C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Advance Steel 20XX\Common\Bin\ folder, trying both 2017 and 2019.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

[ChristianBlei]

Hi,

I use 2, works perfectly. My path is

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2019\ADVS\Addons\CBT_AS_IdeaStatica.xml eg.

with

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AddonsData xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<Addons>
<Addon>
<Name>CBT_AAS_IdeaStatica</Name>
<FullPath><Value Name="InstallLocation" Type="String">C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2018\ADVS\CBT_AS_IdeaStatica.dll</Value></FullPath>
</Addon>
</Addons>
</AddonsData>

HTH,

Christian