Category: Inventor

How to listen and respond to Inventor events in Python using win32com (from http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Inventor/enu/Community/Third_Party_Tools/the_python_page/Listening_to_Events). This example assumes you have succefully been able to connect to Inventor’s COM object If you have not, please do that first.

# used to listen to the application events and also the events for a custom button
import ctypes
import win32com.client
from win32com.client.gencache import EnsureDispatch
import pythoncom

class Events():
    def __init__(self, oApp):
        global Application
        Application = oApp
   
    #Application Events
    class IVEvent():      
        def OnQuit(self, BeforeOrAfter, Context, HandlingCode):
            print("Quiting...")
            ctypes.windll.user32.PostQuitMessage(0)
            Application.Quit()
     
    #Custom Button Events      
    class BEvent():
        def OnExecute(self, Context):
            print "Dxf Button Clicked"

class DoylePlugin():    
    oApp=EnsureDispatch("Inventor.Application")
    oApp.Visible=True
      
    DxfButton=oApp.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions.AddButtonDefinition("Dxf Update", "dxf", 4)
    DxfButton.AutoAddToGUI()
    
    Events = Events(oApp)        
    AppEvents=win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents(oApp.ApplicationEvents, Events.IVEvent)
    DxfEvents=win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents(DxfButton, Events.BEvent)
    
    pythoncom.PumpMessages()