Apprentice Server COM Exception with Inventor 2015

[RonaldDold1034]

Hi,

i have some sample code from the Mod The Machine Blog, which runs on Inventor2012 without problems,  but with Inventor 2015 it throws an exception.

I have no idea whats going wrong.

(Code from: http://modthemachine.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/09/working-with-cameras-part-2.html)

Private Sub CreateImage( _ 

              Apprentice As Inventor.ApprenticeServerComponent, _
              PartOrAssembly As Inventor.ApprenticeServerDocument, _
              Filename As String)
   ' Create a new camera.
   Dim cam As Inventor.Camera
   cam = Apprentice.TransientObjects.CreateCamera

   ' Associate the document with the camera.
   cam.SceneObject = PartOrAssembly.ComponentDefinition

This last line throws a  "System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException"

I know that this have worked with Inventor 2012 as i have build a small "Snapshot" App with this code.

Any Ideas?

[adam.nagy]

Hi Ronald,

It does seem to be an issue 😞 and so I have logged it in our system, #110672

I cannot think of a workaround other than using Inventor (e.g. in the background)

Cheers,

[sverduyn]

It seems this is still a problem with Inventor 2017, Catastrophic Failure when you try do the above!!

[adam.nagy]

Hi,

Unfortunately, it seems this has not been sorted yet 😞

I'll try to raise the priority on this.

Cheers,

[sverduyn]

Thanks, fortunately I can run inventor silently and then use the camera object, not ideal as I want to run it on the vault server!!