VBA code to quickly check in and check out files in vault from inventor drawing?

[francesco.dinh]

Whenever I have to make quick changes to an idw that's already checked in and released (say a dimension is misplaced or such) I'll have to do a "modifica leggera", an edit that doesn't change the revision number. The process is more or less like this.

- From the vault sidebar in the inventor drawing, I'll edit the state to "modifica leggera". This removes the released state from the part without adding a revision number.

 

- check out the file

- make the changest that I want and save

- check in the file

- release it in vault

 

This whole "modifica leggera" > check out > edit > save > check in > release gets really repetitive, especially if I have to do it for a bunch of released files.

Is there a way to have a script to make this process automatic? I'm talking especially about "modifica leggera" > check out and, afterwards, check in > release.

Thanks in advance for any input.

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Hi @francesco.dinh<,

Absolutely a good idea for the "Idea station".

I will vote it if your create it...

There are (For this exampe) so many steps to take/do, and in general this could possibly defined in one or two commands like:

(Change state > Release>>>> WIP

Check out)

and the other command:

(Change state> WIP>>>> Release

Check in)

What you could do is write your own add in for it and combine these command to one custom command.

Regards,

[francesco.dinh]

Hey, thanks for your reply, I'm glad I'm not the only one who find this process so long! I'm afraid I don't have nearly the skillset to create an inventor addin, but I'd be glad if somebody were to try and do it.

I wanted to start much more humbly with a VBA macro, but I'm not 100% sure how inventor and vault communicate between each other (especially because they might not be both "speaking" VBA, as others have pointed out). If it's jus a matter of chunking together a few VBA lines in a macro that's doable, but my knowledge stops there. I'm hoping other people have faced this before!

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Hi,

What version of Vault are you using?

I could help you to create you first add in for inventor(Vault) using VB.net, if you like!

Maybe the first step is to create a new idea in the Idea station.

Regards,

[GeorgK]

Hello @bradeneuropeArthur ,

very interesting idea. I use Vault 2017. This would save a lot of time.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/ilogic-open-file-from-vault/td-p/5701827

Georg