How can I add a new menu item to Inventor menu?

[Anonymous]

Hi everybody,
I want to add a new menu item after 'Help' in Inventor menu. How do I do that?

Regards
Rahul

[Anonymous]

HI,
it's pretty straight forward.

Get the HelpMenu (IIRC its name is AppHelpMenu, use the UserInterfaceManager.CommandBars property) and add the Button at the position you want it (using the addButton method).

hth
neutro

[naresh_kalyan]

Hi all,

I want to add a Menu item as shown in image file. Can someone tell me with a small code snippet.

Thanking you in advance.

So far, I have added a Buttons under Tools.

Anyone's help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

NKalyan

[Anonymous]

Hi Naresh/Rahul,

Below is a VB.net snippet which i was using earlier to add a Ribbon Tab when Part Document Is active.

Dim conDefs As Inventor.ControlDefinitions = m_inventorApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions

Dim idCommand1 As String = "ID_COMMAND_1"

Try
              'Get the existing Command Defition
             _defComando1 = conDefs.Item(idCommand1)
Catch ex As Exception
             _defComando1 = conDefs.AddButtonDefinition("Command 1", idCommand1, CommandTypesEnum.kEditMaskCmdType,                                                                                     Guid.NewGuid().ToString(), "Command 1 Description", "Command 1 ToolTip", GetICOResource("VaultInventorItem.Export.ico"),                GetICOResource("VaultInventorItem.Export.ico"))
End Try

If (firstTime) Then
If (m_inventorApplication.UserInterfaceManager.InterfaceStyle = InterfaceStyleEnum.kRibbonInterface) Then
        '1. Access the zero Doc Ribbon
        Dim ribbonPart As Inventor.Ribbon = m_inventorApplication.UserInterfaceManager.Ribbons.Item("Part")

       '2. Create out custom Tab
       Dim tabSample As Inventor.RibbonTab = ribbonPart.RibbonTabs.Add("sampleBlog", "TAB_SAMPLE_BLOG", Guid.NewGuid.ToString())

       '3. Create a Panel
       Dim pnlMyCommands As Inventor.RibbonPanel = tabSample.RibbonPanels.Add("My Command", "PNL_MY_COMMANDS",                                                                                     Guid.NewGuid.ToString())

       '4. Add the button to the panel
       pnlMyCommands.CommandControls.AddButton(_defComando1, True)
End If
End If

AddHandler _defComando1.OnExecute, AddressOf Command3Method

You can also refer to the Sample code snippets shipped along with inventor where you can add Ribbon tabs and Ribbon menus, etc....

Accept this as a solution if this..Helps