ilogic to open engineers notes

[tom_rafferty1234]

Is there a way to use ilogic to open the engineers notebook?

I have added a custom user guide to one of our more complex models, currently embedded into the engineers notes section in the master part.  Ideally I'd like to add a button to the main form called "User Guide", and when you click this button it opens up the engineers notebook, displaying the user guide.

I'm aware I could use ilogic to open an external file, but I don't really want to link to an external file (if possible).

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Hi,

Why not referring to an embedded file?

[tom_rafferty1234]

As long as the file is embedded (and not an external file) then this would be ok. How can I embed a .docx file into an .ipt?

[tom_rafferty1234]

I have resolved this using an embedded file as suggested.

Used Manage, Insert Object to embed a word document.

Code to run the userguide:

Imports Inventor.OLEDocumentTypeEnum

WordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Dim WordFile As ReferencedOLEFileDescriptor
WordFile = ThisDoc.Document.ReferencedOLEFileDescriptors.Item(1)
WordFile.Activate(kEditOpenOLEVerb, WordApp)

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Dim objDocument As DrawingDocument
    Set objDocument = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
    
    Dim objReferenceOLE As ReferencedOLEFileDescriptor

                Set objReferenceOLE = objDocument.ReferencedOLEFileDescriptors.Add("Your path")
            End If

        End If

End Sub

[bradeneuropeArthur]

And this to open:

Sub OpenEmbeddedfile()
Dim oApp As Inventor.Application
Set oApp = ThisApplication
Dim oOleRef As ReferencedOLEFileDescriptor
Set oOleRef = oApp.ActiveDocument.ReferencedOLEFileDescriptors.Item(1)
Dim owb As Object
Call oOleRef.Activate(kEditOpenOLEVerb, owb)

End Sub