wh7r4bb17.InventorRibbonManager 1.0.0

About

Inventor Ribbon Manager is a helper library to create Ribbon Tabs, Panels, and Buttons for an Inventor Addin.

Set the Property 'AdskVersion' to the Inventor Version you are using, e.g. "2025" for Inventor 2025. Since Inventor 2025 the library use .NET8, for older versions .NET framework 4.8 is used.

🔧 Prerequisites

• Reference to InventorRibbonManager.dll (or included as a project)
• Your AddIn implements ApplicationAddInServer

🧱 Basic Structure

1. InventorRibbonBuilder

Main entry class to create tabs, panels, and controls.

var ribbonBuilder = new InventorRibbonBuilder(inventorApp, myAddInGuid);

2. Create your own commands

Create your own classes that implement IPanelButton.
Example:

public class MyButton : IPanelButton
{
    public string DisplayName => "Hello";
    public string InternalName => "Hello.Internal";
    public string PanelName => "Example";
    public string PanelInternalName => "Example.Internal";
    public RibbonType Environment => RibbonType.Part;

    public ButtonDefinition InventorButtonDefinition { get; }

    public MyButton(Inventor.Application app)
    {
        InventorButtonDefinition = app.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions.AddButtonDefinition(
            DisplayName, InternalName, CommandTypesEnum.kShapeEditCmdType,
            StandardAddInServer._guid, "Tooltip", DisplayName, null, null);

        InventorButtonDefinition.OnExecute += (ctx) =>
            System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("Button clicked!");
    }

    public void AddToPanel(IRibbonPanel panel, RibbonType env)
    {
        panel.AddButton(this, true, env);
    }

    public void Execute() { }
    public object Icon => null;
    public bool Pressed { get; set; }
}

3. Register your buttons

Create button instances:

var buttons = new List<IPanelButton>
{
    new MyButton(inventorApp),
    new MyPopup(inventorApp),
    new MyComboBox(inventorApp)
};

Then automatically generate all panels and controls:

InventorRibbonBuilder.CreatePanelsAndButtonsForTab(
    ribbonBuilder,
    "My Tab",               // Display name
    "MyTab.InternalName",   // Internal name
    buttons
);

🔄 Supported Controls (IRibbonPanel Methods)

💡 All variants also exist as ToSlideout(...).

🛠 Using Slideouts

Inside your AddToPanel(...) method, you can use slideout placement:

panel.AddButtonToSlideout(this, env);
panel.AddPopupToSlideout(...);
panel.AddComboBoxToSlideout(...);

🔌 AddIn Integration

In your StandardAddInServer class:

public void Activate(ApplicationAddInSite addInSiteObject, bool firstTime)
{
    _guid = ((GuidAttribute)Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(GetType(), typeof(GuidAttribute))).Value;
    _inventorApp = addInSiteObject.Application;

    var ribbonBuilder = new InventorRibbonBuilder(_inventorApp, _guid);

    var buttons = new List<IPanelButton>
    {
        new SampleButton(_inventorApp),
        new ComboBoxCommand(_inventorApp),
        // more...
    };

    InventorRibbonBuilder.CreatePanelsAndButtonsForTab(
        ribbonBuilder,
        "DemoTab",
        "DemoTab.Internal",
        buttons
    );
}

✅ Summary

With InventorRibbonManager you can:

• Define Inventor Ribbons cleanly and in structured C#/WPF-style
• Easily create buttons, combo boxes, split buttons, galleries, and popups
• Work fully typed and reusable across your AddIn architecture