Creating scenes in presentation file and linking them to view representations

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I have a pretty complicated assembly that I am creating assembly documents for and I have the assembly steps set up in different view representations in my assembly. I want to create a presentation file (.ipn) in the same directory as the assembly and then create a scene that is linked to each view representation in the assembly. I will go in an manually make the tweaks the the scenes and take whatever snapshots I want. After this I want to create an assembly drawing in the same directory as the presentation file and then create a sheet for every scene in the presentation file. After the sheets are created, I want to go in and add a base view for every snapshot in the scene to the scene's respective sheet.

 The only thing that is holding me back is:

1. Creating a new scene in a presentation file and pointing it to a design representation in an assembly

I have searched the API docs but I haven't found anything regarding this.

I will post the entire code if anybody could help me out with the above step.

Thanks for your time.

Cheers,

Michael

[YuhanZhang]

Hi Michael,

We currently don't have  full APIs support for Presentation documents, but as a workaround you can use the code in below post to create presentation:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/api-insert-the-assembly-into-presentation-inve...

But you may still need more APIs to accomplish your purpose. You can vote the idea for get the Presentation APIs:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/ipn-presentations-ilogic-capable/idi-p/8126265?advance...

You can also add comment to it to help us to evaluate it.

[Anonymous]

Hi Rocky,

Thank you for getting back to me. Once I implement the work around I will post my code here. Hopefully we can get ilogic support for presentation files soon.

Cheers,

Michael

[virendra.patilT8L32]

Hi

Did you got the solution? If yes please share with me. I also stuck on same point.

Thanks & Regards,

Viren

[virendrapatil575]

Hi,

  can you please update on Presentation API.

I am stuck at same.

Thanks in advance

[YuhanZhang]

Can you try if the below VBA code workaround works for you?
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Sub InsertToPrestention()

Dim oCM As CommandManager
Set oCM = ThisApplication.CommandManager
oCM.ClearPrivateEvents

Dim sFile As String
sFile = "C:\Temp\Assembly1.iam"

oCM.PostPrivateEvent kFileNameEvent, sFile

Dim oDoc As PresentationDocument
Set oDoc = ThisApplication.Documents.Add(kPresentationDocumentObject)

End Sub
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[virendrapatil575]

Up to this is ok. But adding scene into presentation file is challenge. If you have any code to add scene then please share with me.

Thanks.

[skyngu]

I tried to access browsernode. but it doesnt work neither. I can not copy scene and paste into presentation file.

Dim oCopyControlDef As ControlDefinition
Set oCopyControlDef = oCM.ControlDefinitions.Item("AppCopyCmd")
Call oCopyControlDef.Execute

EDIT: I found out the way to copy and paste.