Inventor Studio is also an add-in of Inventor. The corresponding *.dll locates at <Inventor Installation Path>\bin\Archon.dll. This dll provides some basic interfaces of Studio. The Interop.InventorStudioLib.dll is generated by VS when you add the lib from
- 32bits: [Add Reference] >> [COM tab] >> [Inventor Studio Library ]
- 64bits: <Inventor Install Path>\bin\archon.dll (you may need to run regsvr32 to register the dll firstly if you get a failure when adding the dll)
After inporting the library, you could get its Automation interface by the add-in. e.g. the code below gets the constraints names the animation uses.
using InventorStudioLib;
namespace WindowsFormsApplication3
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Inventor.Application m_inventorApplication =
(Inventor.Application)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.
GetActiveObject("Inventor.Application");
if (m_inventorApplication == null)
{
MessageBox.Show("no Inventor running!");
return;
}
Inventor._Document oActivedoc = m_inventorApplication.ActiveDocument;
if (oActivedoc == null)
{
MessageBox.Show("Please open an assembly document!");
return;
}
//studio is also an addin which has its guid
string sutdioAddinGuid =
"{F3D38928-74D1-4814-8C24-A74CE8F3B2E3}";
Inventor.ApplicationAddIn oStudioAddin = null;
try
{
// try to get studio addin
oStudioAddin =
m_inventorApplication.ApplicationAddIns.
get_ItemById(sutdioAddinGuid);
}
catch
{
// any error...
return;
}
if (oStudioAddin != null)
{
// activate the addin
if (!oStudioAddin.Activated)
oStudioAddin.Activate();
//get property EnvironmentManager
object oObj = oActivedoc.GetType().InvokeMember(
"EnvironmentManager",
System.Reflection.BindingFlags.GetProperty,
null, oActivedoc, null, null, null, null);
Inventor.EnvironmentManager oEnvironmentMgr =
(Inventor.EnvironmentManager)oObj;
//activate the enviroment of Studio
Inventor.UserInterfaceManager UIManager =
m_inventorApplication.UserInterfaceManager;
if (UIManager.ActiveEnvironment.InternalName != "Archon:Env")
{
Inventor.Environment studioEnv =
UIManager.Environments["Archon:Env"];
oEnvironmentMgr.SetCurrentEnvironment(studioEnv);
}
// get the automation interface of Studio
InventorStudio oInventorStudio = oStudioAddin.Automation;
//AnimationManager
AnimationManager oAM = oInventorStudio.AnimationManager;
if (oAM.AnimationFavorites.Count >0)
{
MessageBox.Show("Studio has AnimationFavourites not empty");
// get first item in AnimationFavorites
object oAF = oAM.AnimationFavorites[1];
Inventor.AssemblyConstraint oAC = (Inventor.AssemblyConstraint) oAF;
MessageBox.Show("AnimationFavourites first item: " + oAC.Name);
}
}
}
}
}
