Using VBA to model data in Autodesk Inventor?

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Published on 2013-11-11T23:05:50Z Indexed on 2013/11/12 4:15 UTC
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I have a close friend who is using a specific device that records the dimensions of an object as it is eroded and outputs the dimensional data to an excel sheet. The object is spherical in nature but is eroded from the top and bottom, so the shape is constantly changing and a single formula for surface area and volume would not work. This is where Inventor comes in. My friend can plug the dimensional data to Inventor and it immediately returns the surface area and volume. The erosion process takes several minutes to complete and records data at very short intervals, so it would be very arduous to plug in the data thousand of time.

Since Inventor supports macros and VBA, is there a way to plug the data into Inventor and output it into another spreadsheet?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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