My company is in the process of upgrading from Inventor 2016 to Inventor 2019. We have a custom print macro that we have used to create a job specific print as well as save that print as a job specific PDF. We are a small operation currently only 2 designers running Inventor, possibly a 3rd in the future. As of right now a we do not have Vault set up. I am very new to Visual Basic but I am slowly learning, the print macro I am using was from a previous employer who was generous enough to give me their file to modify for my use.
Ex. 123456.idw
45678-123456-Sht1.pdf
45678 is the job number, 123456 is the part number, and the sheet number generated from Inventor
The macro prompts with a textbox to manually fill in the job number and the file name is created from the textbox input.
I am testing using CutePDF Creator as it is free and it is one of the few I found that automatically populates the SaveAs field based on the file you have open. Microsoft PDF Printer does not.
The problem I am running into is there appears to be a change that occurred between 2016 to 2019 on how the SaveAs dialog box is populated from Inventor. In 2016 the SaveAs field was populated using Application.ActiveDocument.DisplayName . Which is easy enough to modify within VBA editor. However I could not get this to populate the same in Inventor2019. Through some testing and troubleshooting I have determined that Invnetor2019 uses some form of FileName to populate the field instead of DisplayName.
So far I have not found a way to modify the FileName to do what I want.
The code that is being used in Inventor 2016:
Does anyone have any way of confirming what I am seeing as far as Inventor's use of FileName vs DisplayName?
And if it indeed changed, is there a similar work around I can do that wouldn't involve creating a new file, saving the PDF, then deleting the file? This is what I theorized is my only option if my hypothesis is correct.
Thank you
