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WCrihfield
in reply to: tmathieson

Hi @tmathieson.  This tip is along the same train of thought as what @Curtis_Waguespack was talking about.

Here are a couple lines of Inventor API code that you might find useful in scenarios like that.

When you open a document invisibly (Visibility set to False), (assuming it was not already opened in the background by the assembly before that) it is considered a hidden document, and you can use the ReleaseReference method to release the reference to it that you created by opening it.  However it may leave a remnant in session memory, so you can use the Documents.CloseAll(True) method to clear any/all documents that are no longer being referenced from Inventor's session memory.  Just a couple more tools for the toolbox.

Document.ReleaseReference - (Link1, Link2)

ThisApplication.Documents.CloseAll(True) - (Link1, Link2)

Wesley Crihfield

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