How do we create part or drawing or assembly programatically?

[Anonymous]

Hi Experts,

                 We have a requirement to create standart parts ,drawing and assembly as part of our functionality . Can you please let me know how can we achieve this?

note: These part will be created blank with no geometry,sketches and other details.

Thanks and Regards

Rajesh

[Anonymous]

Hi ,

Using VBA macro in Inventor you can create a new part like this,

Sub newDoc()

 Dim oPart As PartDocument

Set oPart = ThisApplication.Documents.Add(kPartDocumentObject, "C:\\Users\Public\\Documents\\Autodesk\\Inventor 2011\\Templates\\English\\Standard (in).ipt", True)

End Sub

Another way using VB.Net console Application.....

1.Here im trying to connect a running inventor or starting new inventor application

2.Then creating a new part document.

Module Module1
Public inventorApp As Inventor.Application
Public inventordoc As Inventor.Document
Public invPDoc As Inventor.PartDocument

Sub Main()

' Enable error handling.
Try
' Try to connect to a running instance of Inventor.
inventorApp = GetObject(, "Inventor.Application")
Catch ex As Exception
Try
' Try to open Inventor.
inventorApp = CreateObject("Inventor.Application")
inventorApp.Visible = True
Catch ex2 As Exception
' Unable to start Inventor.
MsgBox("Unable to connect to or start Inventor.")
Exit Sub
End Try
End Try
Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)
inventordoc = inventorApp.Documents.Add(Inventor.DocumentTypeEnum.kPartDocumentObject, "C:\\Users\Public\\Documents\\Autodesk\\Inventor 2011\\Templates\\English\\Sheet Metal (in).ipt", True)

End Sub

End Module

Same way you can create empty drawing & Assembly file.Hope it helps..

[Anonymous]

Hi Expert,

              Thanks for the quick reply. I have couple of questions, can we implement the same using C#? Can we create a blank drawing and associate to part later?

@Anonymous for a asking the question: I have to create a part or drawing or assembly. and then check in the vault programattically.

Regards

Rajesh

[Anonymous]

In c# also you can do this as below.But i dont know about checking or comparing files in vault.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.IO ;
using System.Text;
using Inventor;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Diagnostics ;
using System.Threading;

namespace InventorCSharp
{
class Program
{

static void Main(string[] args)
{
Application inventorApp = null;
Document inventordoc = null;

// Enable error handling.
try {
// Try to connect to a running instance of Inventor.
inventorApp = (Application)Marshal.GetActiveObject("Inventor.Application");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// Connecting to a running instance failed so try to start Inventor.
try {

inventorApp = (Application)Activator.CreateInstance (Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Inventor.Application"),true );

inventorApp.Visible = true;
}
catch (Exception ex2)
{
// Unable to start Inventor.
Console.WriteLine ("Unable to connect to or start Inventor.");
return;
}
}
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
inventordoc = inventorApp.Documents.Add(Inventor.DocumentTypeEnum.kPartDocumentObject, "C:\\Users\\Public\\Documents\\Autodesk\\Inventor 2011\\Templates\\English\\Sheet Metal (in).ipt", true);

}
}
}

[Anonymous]

Work great, thanks for the code and explanation.Since am very new to this it helps me lot to understand.Great work and thanks once again.

[Anonymous]

Hai, Since am very new to Autodesk i need a help. I want create a drawing in autodesk inventor though VB. So for i have open the auotdesk application using VB.net code. If any one have idea to create new drawing code using VB .Net in autodesk please let me know. Thanks 

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[tonythm]

Hi,

You can try this:

Sub newDoc()

Dim oPart As PartDocument
Dim oAssembly As AssemblyDocument
Dim oDrawing As DrawingDocument

Set oPart = ThisApplication.Documents.Add(kPartDocumentObject, "C:\\Users\Public\\Documents\\Autodesk\\Inventor 2019\\Templates\\TMStandard.ipt", True)
Set oAssembly = ThisApplication.Documents.Add(kAssemblyDocumentObject, "C:\\Users\Public\\Documents\\Autodesk\\Inventor 2019\\Templates\\TMStandard.iam", True)
Set oDrawing = ThisApplication.Documents.Add(kDrawingDocumentObject, "C:\\Users\Public\\Documents\\Autodesk\\Inventor 2019\\Templates\\TMStandard.dwg", True)

End Sub

[Anonymous]

please explain the difference

[JelteDeJong]

did you see this blog post?

https://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2012/06/creating-a-drawing-from-scratch-with-the-invent...