How to start Inventor with VB.NET in a different language?

[Anonymous]

Hi to all, is there a way to open Inventor.exe in different language (English or French)?  I already loaded the French Language pack.

See below part of a VB.NET program:

Imports System

Imports System.Type

Imports System.Activator

Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Imports Inventor

Public Class Form1

   Dim _invApp As Inventor.Application

   Dim _started As Boolean

   Public Sub New()

       ' This call is required by the designer.

       InitializeComponent()

       ' Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call.

       Try

           _invApp = Marshal.GetActiveObject("Inventor.Application")

       Catch ex As Exception

           Try

               Dim oInvAppType As Type = GetTypeFromProgID("Inventor.Application")

               _invApp = CreateInstance(oInvAppType)

               'I would like to select from the two below:

               'Shortcut English: Inventor shortcut "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2016\Bin\Inventor.exe" /language=ENU

               'Shortcut French: Inventor shortcut "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2016\Bin\Inventor.exe" /language=FRA

               _invApp.Visible = True

               'Note: if you shut down the Inventor session that was started

               'this(way) there is still an Inventor.exe running. We will use

               'this Boolean to test whether or not the Inventor App will

               'need to be shut down.

               _started = True

           Catch ex2 As Exception

               MsgBox(ex2.ToString())

               MsgBox("Unable to get or start Inventor")

           End Try

       End Try

       Me.TopMost = True

   End Sub

[YuhanZhang]

Currently a workaround maybe that you change the Inventor.ini file to switch the language for Inventor, you can find the Inventor.ini from the Inventor installation location, usually it is C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 201x\Bin\Inventor.ini. There is a setting DefaultLanguage=ENU, you can modify the language to switch it. Hope this helps.

[Owner2229 · Accepted solution]

You can start Inventor with Process.Start() and then get it with GetActiveObject():

Process.Start("C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2016\Bin\Inventor.exe", " /language=FRA")
Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000) 'Give Inventor some time to start-up
_invApp = Marshal.GetActiveObject("Inventor.Application")

[Anonymous]

Hi Mike, that was a big help for me.

Thank's again!

Alain