ClientView in Inventor Apprentice 2015 & 2016 don't work

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

I have used the code below to show the ipt and iam file on the PictureBox in winform.

It works properly for Inventor 2014, but doesn't work for 2015, 2016.

The exception message is "Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED))".

Really appreciate for any helps.

ApprenticeServerComponent serverComp = new ApprenticeServerComponent();

string FullFileName = "Part1.ipt" // file path here

ApprenticeServerDocument serverDoc = serverComp.Open(FullFileName);
ClientView oClientView = serverDoc.ClientViews.Add(pictureBox1.Handle.ToInt32()); // show model on pictureBox1

// Settings
oClientView.DisplayMode = DisplayModeEnum.kShadedWithEdgesRendering;
Camera oCamera  = oClientView.Camera;

oCamera.ViewOrientationType = ViewOrientationTypeEnum.kIsoTopRightViewOrientation;
oCamera.Perspective = false;
oCamera.Fit();
oCamera.Apply();
// =========

oClientView.Update(false); // The pictureBox shows the file here but get an error if version 2015 or 2016.

[NachoShaw]

did you ever resolve this?

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Could you take a quick look at the following thread and see if it applies to you?

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/apprentice-clientview/td-p/7173085

Many thansk!

[NachoShaw]

Hi Johnson

Thanks for the reply. I have already tried that as I found the thread yesterday. I cannot get the project to work and get an error with same code.

It used to work on my machine amd my previous application, just doesn't work anymore

I'm happy to supply a test project



Thanks

Nacho

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! What release of Inventor are you on? 2018?

Many thanks!

[NachoShaw]

Hi

Here's my spec

Inventor
Windows 10 64 bit
Visual studio
.net framework 4.5.2


Thanks

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I am asking you what Inventor release you are on. 2018 or 2017?

Many thanks!

[NachoShaw]

Sorry, I did type 2017 but my phone tends to think its smarter than me sometimes....

[NachoShaw]

Hi

For clarity, I am on build 256, release 2017.4.2


Thanks