Ho can I prevent users from opening another instance of Inventor

[cadadmin]

Hello,

 Is there a command line or registry edit that can be made to prevent users from opening a 2nd instance of Inventor? This is problematic for "some users" who are working on one project and then open a second project and subsequently  (and continuously) do not realize the items they are working on are no longer set by the parameters of the first projects settings.  

Regards,

Tom

[Xun.Zhang · Accepted solution]

Hello Tom,

Try this - Use AHK. Map your Inventor key to the following script (This one is mapped to Windows+Z).

Each time (Windows+Z) to launch Inventor, the instance active state is checking by default to prevent a new instance.

#z::
IfWinExist Inventor
WinActivate
else
Run Inventor://
return

Hope it helps!

[cadadmin]

Xun Zhang,

Thank you! I will try that for the users that seem to be having difficulty on a regular basis. While it would be preferable to have a setting in Inventor, or a command line switch, I am up for anything - this should do the job.

Regards,

Tom

[Anonymous]

I can't see any situation that would benefit from having 2 instances of Inventor running. So why not build the mutex (that's how this thing is called) right into the program ?