Inventor File Dialog

[SoeGranops]

Hi,

I created an Addin for replacing the reference of a derived Part with Inventor and Vault 2018. It works fine for the File System. For this I need the InsertMode = True. When I'm now trying to get the File from Vault and therefore setting ShowQuickLaunch=True it's not possible taking a File from Vault. 

The Quicklaunch to Vault only works when the InsertMode is set to False. But I don't need the openMode.

Is there a solution for this?

[sajith_subramanian · Accepted solution]

Hi @SoeGranops,

That is as designed. If you take a look at the API help for ShowQuickLaunch property, it says "When the dialog is in insert mode the quick launch controls will be always hidden, so to show the quick launch controls the InsertMode should be set to False also."

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2019/ENU/?guid=GUID-6FE9A70B-E40C-43C5-AD0E-80FFB828C007

As a workaround, you can call the Replace command using code as shown below:

ThisApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions.Item("AssemblyReplaceCmd").Execute

This will also launch a Dialog that would have an option to Browse a file from Vault.

For testing, I used the below VB code snippet to select a component occurrence and call the replace command on it. Maybe you could use it for reference:

Sub main()
  Dim oDoc As Inventor.AssemblyDocument
   Set oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
   Dim oCompDef As Inventor.ComponentDefinition
   Set oCompDef = oDoc.ComponentDefinition
   Call ThisApplication.CommandManager.DoSelect(oCompDef.Occurrences.Item(1))
   ThisApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions.Item("AssemblyReplaceCmd").Execute
End Sub

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Sajith 

[SoeGranops]

Thank you very much, 

I think the solution won't work because I need it for derived parts. 

But now I know that there is no fault.