Vault-Model Browser Toggle button

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  Brian Schanen joined Autodesk in 2005 as a Product Designer and currently is a Customer Success Engineer for Autodesk’s Data Management products. Brian has taught at Autodesk University numerous times and has authored white papers on Vault and Productstream. He works with customers to implement a complete digital prototyping solution specializing in Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Vault and Productstream. Brian lives near Detroit, Michigan.

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  Vault-Model Browser Toggle button
  May 13, 2008, 11:06 PM Brian Schanen

  Here is a great usability tip for toggling the Inventor model browser over to the Vault browser – and back. This is especially nice for both Inventor power users and those of us who demonstrate Vault with Inventor regularly – and you know who you are. You can use the following code in a IVB file and then Create a button in a Toolbar and assign the Below macro to the button:

  Sub Toggle_Model_Vault()

  On Error Resume Next

   

  If ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.BrowserPanes.ActivePane.Name = "Model" Then

  ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.BrowserPanes.Item("Vault").Activate

  Exit Sub

  End If

   

  If ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.BrowserPanes.ActivePane.Name = "Vault" Then

  ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.BrowserPanes.Item("Model").Activate

  Exit Sub

  End If

   

  End Sub

  

  You can also assign some short-cut (Accelerator) keys to execute the Toggle function while working in Inventor.

  

  Cheers.

  -Brian Schanen

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  May 14, 2008 08:17 PM Josh Hunt

  awesome code Brian, it's the next best thing to integrating the Model and Vault browsers.