Migrating your SolidWorks Applications to Inventor

I asked a question in a recent post to see if any of you were interested in a series of posts discussing how to migrate your SolidWorks programs to work with Inventor.  Well, there was some interest in the topic.  Rather than break the information up into a series of posts, here’s a document produced by the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) team that describes some of the differences in the programming interfaces and some hints and tips to help you with the migration.

Migrating SolidWorks Applications to Autodesk Inventor

This is the initial release of the document so it will likely go through some updates.  Any comments that will help to improve it are welcome.

Comments

[jakubd]

Hi Brian

I need help with vba script in inventor for one of Our customers.

Can You please contact me to my email ?

Best Regards

Jakub D.

[Jens Bejer Pedersen]

Hi Brian

A couple of comments on the PDF Document:

The first link on page 5 points to a file in the local users temporary internet files and of gives an error when clicked.

In several of the code examples You use the Inventor Application as _InvApplication but I think You intended to use ThisApplication since You use the VBA Environment.

In general You use a mixed mode for writing Object.Method accessors, either using the :: as in C++ or just using the . as in VB and C# (and in all the VBA code examples), I would recommend to use either only one of these conventions or at least give an explanation when :: is used the first time (Page 16) as this is after the first code examples.

I would like You to extend the document with some examples about (Model) Parameters and Properties, how to get, Query and Set these entities.

Regards,
Jens Bejer Pedersen