Clear “Show My Home on startup” option

By Sajith Subramanian

We had a query to clear the  “Show My Home on startup”  option under Inventor Application Options, General Tab, using the Inventor API.

Currently, there is no API to achieve this directly.

However, since Inventor 2018, the application options are no longer in the registry.  They are now in an XML file that’s located in the user’s roaming profile: 

C:\Users\<<USER>>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Inventor 2019\UserApplicationOptions.xml
 
This file contains changes from the default Application option settings. 
The “Show My Home” section is part of the “<General>” element: 
<General ShowHomeBaseOnStartup=”0″/>
 
Additionally, It will also contain other attributes, if other settings in the “General” Application Options tab differ from the default. For e.g.:
   <General MruSize=”45″ ShowHomeBaseOnStartup=”0″/>