Shortcuts to open Autodesk Software.
If you have multiple Autodeskproducts in different releases and languages installed it can be a pain to open exactly what you need. At least thats what I was experiencing and so I built this tool.
Currently it works for AutoCAD / AutoCAD Mechanical / Inventor / Inventor Read Only from Release 2017 to 2021.
- update to scan for 2025 products
- updated to scan for 2024 products
- updated to scan for 2023 products
- added detection for languagepacks inventor 2022 updates
- updated to scan for 2022 products
- Fixed a bug that did show ReadOnly for Version that do not have ReadOnly
- Auto Close Function (After opening something, it closes down automatically)
- Closes down if the window looses focus
At startup it will check what is installed and depending on that it will display a Icon or not.
So as a sample if click on 2020 there are alot more products displayed because there is also AutoCAD and AutoCAD Mechanical installed.
At the moment there are only three settings. you can change to a dark mode and you can set the window to be always on top. Also you can decide if the window should be minimized after clicking on something to start.
If you hover over the "X" in the top right corner, you can see that it tells you close to systray. It wont actualy close from there.
After that you can restart it from systray.
or close it.
At the moment it is not signed so you probably get a windows defender message which you need to allow.
Also make sure that all dll files are not blocked. Open res\assembly folder and check by rightclicking on dll file.
To build this use the provided buildscript. For this to work you need to installa ps2exe first. Do it like this: Install-Module ps2exe.
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2020 Tobias Wiesendanger
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