I am not sure if this is just not possible or the words that I am using in internet and forum searches is incorrect, but I have found no information on the subject.

Essentially I would like to use the Inventor API (in Access 2k) to read iProperties in an IPT file.

I have found lots of great articles (here and elsewhere), that show how to get to the iproperties, so that part I am ok with. My problem is that I can not or do not know how to create a reference to Inventor.Application object (or whatever it should be) and therefore cannot open a Document.

All code samples that I have found use the VBA imbedded in Inventor and there get a reference to the document using:




But of course that only works in Inventor. How do i accomplish the same from Microsoft Access.

Thank-you
Bill


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I found what I am looking for. For those that are interested, there are lots of samples in the C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2008\SDK folders.

Assuming you have Inventor installed and running on the same machine, the simplified code is...


Make sure that you have a Reference set to the Inventor Type Library in your Access code.

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I think you need to add Autodesk Inventor Object Library in VB reference.