Interactive Publishing with inventorpublish
inventorpublish is a script that is run to create an environment in which Inventor CAD data can be interactively published.
The advantage of using inventorpublish over inventorbatch is that inventorpublish opens Inventor, where you can see the part as well as modify its attributes prior to publishing. This enables you to obtain precise results for publishing CAD data.
This chapter describes how to use inventorpublish in an active session of Inventor.
inventorpublish Overview
Inventor CAD data is converted to the Creo View format using a method called publishing. During a fully interactive user session with Inventor, the user selects an option that allows the conversion of the current CAD data.
Using inventorpublish
The inventorpublish script is created when you used the inventor2pv_config program described in the last chapter. This file is located in the selected <setup_directory>.
To run inventorpublish from the command line, type:
<setup_directory>\inventorpublish
This opens a session of Inventor. The Publish to Creo View option is available in the main Inventor File menu.
On Windows, you can also double-click the inventorpublish.bat file located in the <setup_directory>.
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For quick access to interactive publishing, create a shortcut by right-clicking the inventorpublish.bat file and selecting > .
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To run and test inventorpublish, follow these steps:
1. Open a command prompt and run inventorpublish. A session of Inventor starts.
2. Open the CAD data that you want to interactively publish.
3. With the CAD data in view, select Publish from the main menu. The following sub-menus are displayed:
a. Recipe File
Selecting this option opens a dialog box, where you specify the name of the recipe file you want the adapter to use while converting the CAD data. If you do not use this option, the adapter uses the configuration recipe file. See section Introduction to Recipe Editing for Converting CAD Data for more information.
b. Output Path
Enter the path to the directory where you want to place the converted files once they are published. If you entered a default path in the recipe file, you do not need to use this option.
c. Publish to Creo View
Select this option to initiate publishing.
4. Once you have published the current CAD data, you can open the output in Creo View.
You have now published data interactively using inventorpublish.