!!top!! | Autodesk.inventor.interop.dll

While utilizing autodesk.inventor.interop.dll gives you the ultimate raw programming flexibility required for complex standalone systems, plugins, and tools, it is worth noting alternative paths.

You have two options:

Sophisticated developers write bootstrap code that reads the installed Inventor version from the registry (e.g., HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\Inventor ) and dynamically resolves the correct interop assembly path using Assembly.LoadFrom() . autodesk.inventor.interop.dll

: Use ExtrudeFeatures to create a standard 3D solid from the text profile. This is better for simple, flat-surface 3D text. Different version of Autodesk.Inventor.Interop.dll

: Typically found in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 20xx\Bin\Public Assemblies . While utilizing autodesk

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Add the following to your app.config file: This is better for simple, flat-surface 3D text

You can often use a DLL from an older version (e.g., 2018) to maintain compatibility with newer versions of Inventor.

Autodesk Inventor's underlying architecture is built using COM technology. Modern Microsoft .NET applications (written in C# or VB.NET) cannot natively communicate with COM servers directly because they run in different runtime environments (Managed vs. Unmanaged code).