Knowledge Bridge Documentation

Help version: 3.3.8

 

Description

Executes an Inventor macro. The macro can be external or embedded in the document.

 

Mixins

InvObjectMixin

 

 

Project Example

In your kBridge Examples Projects folder open the project called ‘Table_KB_Inventor_Example’.

 

Expand the CombineParts folder , expand the Models folder, right click ‘CombineParts’ and select ‘Load Model…’.

 

Reference Location:

"world.combineparts.partsassembly.partsassembly0.myextrudedpart.myextrudedpart0.invmacro.invmacro0"

Link: https://knowledgebridge.engineer/projects

 

InvMacro was dragged into MyExtrudedPart0 from InventorUtilities. and these values were put into the rules:

 

InvMacro is a child of MyExtrudedPart0

 

You don’t put your Macro or VBA code in the InvMacro design. Instead, you reference (invExecuteMacro) in the code that you created in Inventor. This example code was created in Inventor by opening ExtrudedPart.ipt, clicking on the Tool tab and selecting the VBA Editor.

 

Expand Autodesk Inventor Professional Objects and click on ‘ThisDocument’. Then write your code in the window on the right and save.

 

Notice the first part of the string for:

invExecuteMacro:                "thisDocument.changeParam"

 

‘thisDocument’ is required before the name of the subroutine (changeParam) separated by a period.

 

Code Example

Sub changeParam()

    Dim pd As PartDocument

    Set pd = ThisDocument

    

    Dim mup As UserParameter

    Set mup = pd.ComponentDefinition.Parameters.UserParameters("height")

    

    mup.Value = mup.Value + 10

End Sub

 

Inventor Integration Drawing output

In the first example below, the ‘invExecuteMacro’ value has been set to an empty set ("").

In the second example the value has been set to "thisDocument.changeParam".