VbScript to Open Inventor And Change Project Options

[MechMachineMan]

Hi there.

Looking for some quick help!

I want to write a vbscript or some quick executable that achieve the following goals.

1) Open a new instance of inventor

2) In this new instance, change the project to a predefined one and activate it.

3) Change where my application options point to content center.

Why:

a)I have been doing a lot of tweaking to content center in my spare time, and to keep it from affecting our production, I am doing it in a set of working files before I push it to the server files.

Every break, I constantly have to manually perform the steps above which is tedious and annoying.

b) I feel like vbscript is quite a powerful tool to have in my repertoire if it can perform this functionality.

c) I haven't found a way to be able to run a rule in inventor that switches the active project, esp. seeing as you need all documents close to switch a project.

[MechMachineMan · Accepted solution]

Well, I did it!

Steps to make it work.

1) Open a new notepad file

2) Paste this code

Set InvApp = CreateObject("Inventor.Application")
InvApp.Visible = True

InvApp.ContentCenterOptions.SetAccessOption 81153, "C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\CC Library Editting"

Set oProject = InvApp.DesignProjectManager.DesignProjects.ItemByName("C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\CC Library Editting\CC Library Editting.ipj")
oProject.Activate

InvApp.Documents.Open "C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\recessed rubber bumper.ipt", True 

3) Save file as .vbs

4) Run the .vbs

5) Profit!