By Barbara Han
Inventor has many TranslatorAddIns which can be used to import/export file through programming. For example, to import IGES file, you can use IGES TranslatorAddin’s API and it allows you to set options for importing.
The HasOpenOptions method of the IGES TranslatorAddIn tells the importing options. This is same for other file format such as DWF/DWG/DXF/IGES/STEP/SAT and so on. After you set the Value of the option (NameValueMap object), the value will be applied when you open the file through TranslatorAddIn API. How please note that although you can use API to change those options, but all those options shown in the UI are saved at the last time you changed it from UI, instead of API.
One of our developers even asked us a question about how to check/uncheck ‘Auto Stitch And Promote’ option. In API world, there is an hidden property ‘AutoStitchAndPromote’. This means this property is unsupported, and Not for public use – you are on your own risk if you are keen to use it. Its function is to attempt to auto stitch the entire contents of the explicit environment and promote the solid result. You need to set CreateSurfIndex option to 3 or 4 to enable this function. From UI IGES import options dialog, you can see what this means when you switch the Create Surface As type and look at the ‘Auto Stitch And Promote’ option.
The following is a sample that gets all available options, and changes a couple of options, then open the IGES file. Before running the sample, please change the dm.FileName to your .igs file path.
VBA code:
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Public Sub getImportOptions() Dim app As Application app = ThisApplication Dim addins As ApplicationAddIns Dim addIn As TranslatorAddIn addins = app.ApplicationAddIns
Dim i As Integer
‘get the addin
On Error Resume Next For i = 1 To addins.Count If addins(i).AddInType = kTranslationApplicationAddIn Then If addins(i).ClassIdString = "{90AF7F44-0C01-11D5-8E83-0010B541CD80}" Then addIn = addins.Item(i) End If End If Next i
‘Activate AddIns addIn.Activate()
Dim dm As DataMedium dm = app.TransientObjects.CreateDataMedium dm.filename = "C:\Users\hanb\Documents\Inventor\InvPro1\Assembly2.igs"
Dim context As TranslationContext context = app.TransientObjects.CreateTranslationContext context.Type = kFileBrowseIOMechanism
Dim nvm As NameValueMap nvm = app.TransientObjects.CreateNameValueMap
‘you can get the options now… If addIn.HasOpenOptions(dm, context, nvm) Then For i = 1 To nvm.Count Debug.Print("[Option Name] " & nvm.Name(i) & " = " & nvm.Value(nvm.Name(i))) Ne End If ‘Demo: change some options
nvm.Value("CreateSurfIndex") = 3 nvm.Value("AutoStitchAndPromote") = False
‘Open the file with options
Dim oNewDoc As Document Call addIn.Open(dm, context, nvm, oNewDoc) oNewDoc.Views.Add()
‘Call AutoStitchAndPromote method. ‘Just a test, no specific meaning.
If oNewDoc.DocumentType = kPartDocumentObject Then Dim ptDoc As PartDocument ptDoc = oNewDoc ptDoc.ComponentDefinition.[_AutoStitchAndPromote]() End If End Sub |
The equivalent C# code:
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public void ImportIges() { try { Inventor.Application app = (Inventor.Application)System.Runtime. InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("Inventor.Application");
ApplicationAddIns addins = null; TranslatorAddIn addIn = null;
addins = app.ApplicationAddIns;
int nCount = addins.Count; for (int i = 1; i <= nCount; i++) { try { if (addins[i].AddInType == ApplicationAddInTypeEnum.kTranslationApplicationAddIn) { if (addins[i].ClassIdString == "{90AF7F44-0C01-11D5-8E83-0010B541CD80}") { addIn = (TranslatorAddIn)addins[i]; break; } } } catch { } }
if (addIn == null) return;
//Activate AddIns
addIn.Activate();
DataMedium dm = app.TransientObjects.CreateDataMedium(); dm.FileName = "C:\\Part1.igs";
TranslationContext context = app.TransientObjects.CreateTranslationContext(); context.Type = IOMechanismEnum.kFileBrowseIOMechanism;
NameValueMap nvm = app.TransientObjects.CreateNameValueMap();
//you can get the options now…
if (addIn.get_HasOpenOptions(dm, context, nvm)) { for (int i = 1; i <= nvm.Count; i++) { string strText = "[Option Name] " + nvm.get_Name(i) + " = " + nvm.get_Value(nvm.get_Name(i)); Console.WriteLine(strText); } }
//Demo: change some options
nvm.set_Value("CreateSurfIndex", 3); nvm.set_Value("AutoStitchAndPromote", true);
object oNewDoc = null; addIn.Open(dm, context, nvm, out oNewDoc);
Document doc = (Document)oNewDoc; doc.Views.Add(); } catch { } } |
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