How to Run a Autodesk Inventor Macro
Short Tutorial on Loading and Running iCode
I suggest reading this for a quick reference, but Charles Bliss has made a program called MrMacro which has
made it a lot easier to load and run Inventor Macros. Follow this link to his site to get it.
"CBliss Macro Page"
Also in Sean Dotson's Tips & Tricks tutorial, is a short note on how to have toolbuttons for Macros.
It can be found here
"SDotson Tutorials Page"
It never hurts to learn how to do it manualy though, so here we go.
In Inventor go to the
Tools dropdown, then
Macro, and finally
Visual Basic Editor
This will open the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) where you will now need to go to the
File dropdown,
and then
Load Project
Browse to and load the (your name here).ivb file you want.
Now Switch back to Inventor and go to the
Tools pulldown, and
Macro flyout, and select
Macros. That will open this dialog.
If the macro you want isn't showing in the top box, use the
Macros in: dropdown list and go to the top choice which
should be
All Application Projects and Active Documents which should make all loaded macros available in the top section.
Highlight the one you want to run and select the
Run button.
