Inventor 2018 custom Add-In

[Anonymous]

Hey,

I am new to programming to iventor (and vba) and i need to make an Add-In, I've followed almost all of the tutorials to create a Add-In button but it won't show. The Add-In is loaded but doesn't show. I tried debugging but my breakpoint is never reached (even when i put it on the Activate() method).

I am using Visual Studio 2015 and Inventor 2018.

I started the project by creating a new VB Inventor 2018 Add-In project in VS.

Any help or sujestions are greatly appreciated.

Rob Rombouts

[Anonymous]

Ok, when i load another test add-in i made it works "fine", i can get the button to show (without image even though i specify one) and add an event when clicked. i wil analyze both files and see what it is that makes it that one works for me and the other one doesn't.

cheers,

Rob Rombouts

[frederic.vandenplas]

Hi,

You create the defition, but you don't tell where the icon should be used

 m_sampleButton = controlDefs.AddButtonDefinition("Command Name", "iTestName", CommandTypesEnum.kNonShapeEditCmdType, AddInClientID, largeIcon ,smallIcon )

[Anonymous]

Ok, i think the error is with the images. when i add them to the button my add-in remains unloaded. do i need to resize them myself or is that what the stdole is for?

UPDATE:

I added a description and tooltip string and added the images after and the error was gone but still my images arent shown:

 m_sampleButton = controlDefs.AddButtonDefinition("Command Name", "iTestName", CommandTypesEnum.kNonShapeEditCmdType, AddInClientID, "test", "test", largeIcon, smallIcon)

[frederic.vandenplas]

I use this class PictureDispConvert.vb attached Change .txt to .vb.

stdole is one of the few methods that can convert these icons, to what inventor needs, why they made it so difficult, i don't know.

The button sizes should be 16x16 and 32x32 for proper displaying.

To create a button with image, the only thing i do is this

m_DIN9635Calculation = InvApp.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions.AddButtonDefinition("DIN 6935", "Din6935CalculationiName", CommandTypesEnum.kEditMaskCmdType, addInCLSIDString, "Excel calculation for sheetmetal flatpattern calculation", "Excel calculation for sheetmetal flatpattern calculation", PictureDispConverter.ToIPictureDisp(My.Resources.din6935calculation16), PictureDispConverter.ToIPictureDisp(My.Resources.din6935calculation32), ButtonDisplayEnum.kAlwaysDisplayText)

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

SOLUTION: I had to scale the images myself so that they are the right size to be placed as an icon, this solved the issue for me.

Kuddos to you all who helped me.

Many thanks,

Rob Rombouts

[Anonymous]

So i completed the addin and it works perfect on my system, now i need to transfer the add-in to other devices but when i do this i get the issue that started this all in the first place. The add-inn is found bij the add-in manager but can not be loaded (does not stay loaded) the devices work with inventor 2017 and i work on inventor 2018. but in my project i specified that it should work from version 21 and on. Thr version of the devices is 21.1. What am i ding wrong now?

[jeanB99VC]

Hi There,

Is it possible for you to post the final working procedure and needed files this would be great.

Thanks in advance !