Addin Wizard not showing

[meck]

I am trying to create an addin for the first time. After reading the help file It says to use the Inventor Addin Wizard. I ran both the UserTools.msi and the DeveloperTools.msi and even restarted my computer. The wizard still does not show up when I select new project in VB2010 express. I'm using Inventor 2013.

Please help thanks!

[ryan]

After the developer tools have been installed you need to run the installer for the wizards. You will find this in one of the subdirectories where the developer tools was installed (extracted).

[meck]

Thanks for the reply Ryan!

I ran InventorWizards.msi also. The wizard just does not show up in the New Project list. Is there a way to browse for the wizard template in vb.net?

[wayne.brill]

Hi Mike,

I believe the installer was not tested on VS Express. Try the suggestion at this post:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-Customization/Developertools-for-Inventor-2013-under-VS-2010-...

Thanks,

Wayne

[meck]

I tried it moving the files as per the links suggestion but still no luck. 😞

[wayne.brill]

Hi Mike,

Maybe using a tool like processmonitor will help:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cb56073f-62a3-4ed8-9dd6-40c84cb9e2f5.aspx

I set the filter to only include a path with the name of the zip. (VBInventorAddInTemplate) When I start a new project in VB express I see in Processmonitor the zip file being accessed in this directory:

C:\Users\brillw\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VBExpress\10.0\ProjectTemplatesCache\VBInventorAddInTemplate.zip\MyTemplate.vstemplate

Also I see the "Autodesk Inventor AddIn" under Intstalled Templates >Visual Basic". (not under Autodesk)

Thanks,

Wayne