To use the Add-in Plugin File being used in Navisworks 2017 in other 2018 Ver. ...

[Anonymous]

Hello... I don't know English very well, so I interpret it as a translator and post it.

I made a menu in C# (VS2015). (See picture below)

The created file was placed in the "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Navisworks Manage 2017\Plugins\Dw-Menu\" folder.

Put *.xml File in "Dw-Menu\en-US" folder, put *.png File in "Dw-Menu\Images" folder, "Dw-Menu Put *.xml File in pt-BR" folder, and *.xmal and *.dll files in "Dw-Menu" folder.

In this state (Navisworks 2017), it works fine.

As mentioned above, if you copy all files and folders in the "Dw-Menu" folder to Navisworks 2018 and run Navisworks 2018, the menu will not appear as shown.

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Navisworks Manage 2018\Plugins\Dw-Menu\..."

What is the problem?

How can I use it normally in 2018, 2019 and 2020 versions?

Please tell me how to fix it...

It is very difficult for me to be a beginner..^^

Thank you.

[ulski1 · Accepted solution]

For a plugin to work it depends on being able to access the Navisworks api dll file - and the different versions of Navisworks got different versions of the dll and different folder names where the dll is stored.

Each time you want to upgrade a plugin to work with a new versions of Navisworks you need to create a new visual studio project and in the csproj file you need to change the dll path and version so it matches the version you want to use and then you build a new plugin dll from visual studio.

To put it simpler, you need to know about programming.

br

Ulrik

[Anonymous]

Thank you.

As you said, in the "*.csproj" File, 2017 was changed to 2018.

After editing, I opened VS File to create a menu.

And when I try to release it, it cannot be released because there is no dll in 2018.

How do you release it in this case?

Do I need to have the version of Navisworks I want to use?

please check.

Thank you.