Rule Compile Errors: Could not find a part of the path

[Anonymous]

About twice to thrice times a week I receive this error.

I restart Inventor and it goes away for a day or two, then upon saving BAM, it's back.

How does one resolve this?

Thanks!

[Mark.Lancaster]

@Anonymous

Welcome to the Autodesk User's Community..

Are you actually setting a path in your coding to your personal temp (%temp%) folder?  If so you shouldn't be doing that.

[Anonymous]

No, the path is to my network folder so multiple users can use these rules. Only two of the users have that issue, me being one of them.

[dgreatice]

Hi,

make sure all user, when create map network drive in windows folder are same.

example, all drive set to J:\

[Anonymous]

All file paths are setup correct/ the same amongst all the users. The issue only came about after we upgraded to inventor 2019 from the 2018 version.

[GeorgK]

This happens when the network is down or not reachable:

If My.Computer.Network.IsAvailable Then
    MsgBox("Computer is connected.")
Else
    MsgBox("Computer is not connected.")
End If

[GeorgK]

Or with your drive:

Sub Main
Dim sDrive As String = "J:"
 
If IsDriveReady(sDrive) Then
  MsgBox("Laufwerk " & sDrive & " ist bereit.")
Else
  MsgBox("Laufwerk " & sDrive & " existiert nicht oder ist nicht verfügbar!")
End If
End Sub


Public Function IsDriveReady(ByVal sDrive As String) As Boolean
  ' Prüft, ob das angegebene Laufwerk existiert und
  ' ob darauf zugegriffen werden kann
  Try
    Dim oDrive As New System.IO.DriveInfo(sDrive)
    Return oDrive.IsReady
  Catch ex As Exception
    Return False
  End Try
End Function

[nlowe3FXX2]

Hi,

I just ran into this problem the last few days. Here is what I did, and I am surprised it even worked. 

The error is basically saying it can't find a file in a specific folder. I believe that Inventor is suppose to be making this folder automatically, but something has glitched. 

The way I solved it was by following the file path in file explorer that it was supposedly looking for. Yours would be

C:\Users\Ryans\AppData\Local\Temp\iLogic Rules\Approval.vb

When I got as far as the "Temp" folder I saw that the "iLogic Rules" folder wasn't there...so as a desperate joke I just made one. I created a new folder and named it " iLogic Rules ". When I went back into inventor my code worked perfectly again.....and all of the rule populated in the folder I had just created. 

Hope this helps!

[MjDeck]

@Anonymous and @nlowe3FXX2 , if you still see this error occasionally, please use the workaround described in Message 5 on this thread.

[Mohamed_Rafick]

It works for me... Thanks

[lszlsos]

I don't know why, but when en external rule runs, a .vb file is created in that Temp folder (C:\Users\XY\AppData\Local\Temp\iLogic Rules) with the same name as the external rule. If that folder doesn't exist, the error massage pops up.

This was the case, when my external rule (C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2020\Macros\Mass.iLogicVb) tried to run too. The Inventor (Professional 2020) tried to create the Mass.vb file on that Temp folder but failed, because it didn't exist. After I manually created that Folder, my external rule ran correctly. But everytime when that rule is runnig, the Mass.vb file is being overwritten again and again. 

If somebody knows why is the extra .vb file needed to run the .iLogiVb externel rule please tell us! 🙂

[MjDeck]

@lszlsos,  the .vb file in the Temp folder should not be overwritten every time you run the rule. But if you modify the rule and run it, or shut down and restart Inventor, then the file will be overwritten.
The temp file is not need to run the rule. It's only needed to debug it, as described here. In order to make it easy to debug, Inventor creates the temp files by default. But if you never debug with Visual Studio and you don't want to see the temp files, you can get rid of them by using the method described in Message 5 on this thread.