Sunday, October 17, 2010

Switch between model & vault tree in Autodesk Inventor Browser



Please find attached the macro & procedure to create a shortcut for switching model & vault tree in Inventor browser pane.

1) Copy below code into any module of Inventor VBA (Press ALT+F11 to go to.)

Sub SwitchVaultModelTree()

    Dim oDoc As Document
    Set oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument

    Dim oPanes As BrowserPanes
    Set oPanes = oDoc.BrowserPanes
   
    If oPanes.ActivePane.Name = "Vault" Then
        'oPanes.Item(3).Activate
        oPanes.Item("Model").Activate
    Else
        oPanes.Item("Vault").Activate
    End If
   
    If oDoc.Type = kDrawingDocumentObject Then
        oPanes.Item("Model").Activate
    End If
   
End Sub

2) In Inventor Select Tools>>Customize & goto keyboard tab & Category "Macro"



3) In the command box, click in the Keys column next to the associated command. Enter the shortcut( i chose num key 3), you can any of these methods:
    • Press any single letter or number key (A-Z, 0-9).
    • Press any combination of alphanumeric keys.


With above steeps number key 3 shall switch the browser tree.
 

1 comment:

rrh said...

Hello Sanjay,

Can you provide the macros for iproperties?

Regards,

Ruturaj