However, many developers unknowingly cause version hell by:
: In Visual Studio, right-click on your project's References and browse for Autodesk.Inventor.Interop.dll . autodesk.inventor.interop.dll
: If your app fails on other machines, check that "Embed Interop Types" is set correctly in your project settings—setting it to "False" while setting "Copy Local" to "True" is often required for complex automation tasks [5.19]. However, many developers unknowingly cause version hell by:
Imports Inventor ' Brings in the Inventor namespace Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Module InventorAutomation Sub Main() Dim invApp As Inventor.Application = Nothing Try ' Get the active Inventor application using its ProgID invApp = Marshal.GetActiveObject("Inventor.Application") ' Access the active document Dim doc As Document = invApp.ActiveDocument Console.WriteLine("Active Document: " & doc.DisplayName) Catch ex As Exception Console.WriteLine("Error: " & ex.Message) End Try End Sub End Module Use code with caution. Frequently Asked Questions autodesk.inventor.interop.dll
Server-side processing of Inventor files using Autodesk's cloud infrastructure.
Missing or incorrect reference to the interop assembly. The .NET runtime cannot map the native COM interface to a managed type.