does anyone know how to run an inventor macro in excel?

[Anonymous]

With solidworks I can write vba code in excel and when executing the macro, it does something in solidworks. Could you do the same with inventor?

Something like this:

another question
Does anyone know where I can find the official documentation for the api or ilogic?

[WCrihfield]

I, personally haven't tried running a Macro within Excel and have it effect Inventor, but it sounds doable, if you have the references set-up right, and get the Inventor Application object the right way.

As for your other question about official documentation...I think the following links are going to be along those lines:

Inventor API User's Manual 

iLogic API Overview 

[A.Acheson]

Here is how to set up excel VBA with the correct object.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ilogic-api-vba-forum/open-inventor-part-with-the-help-of-exc...

You will have to figure out how not to start an inventor app each time if there is already one active.