CREATE A CUSTOM TAB USING VISUAL BASIC
This tutorial explains how to create and embed your own activex component in 3dcreate using visual basic. Objectives the objective of this tutorial is to create a simple activex component and embed it into 3dcreate.
Creating the activex component
1. Create the ActiveX component and give it a unique name
1.1 Start Visual Basic and create a new ActiveX control project.
1.2 Change the project name to ComTutorial1, through ‘Projects > Project1 Properties’.
1.3 Change the ActiveX component name to Tab, through the Properties window.
Now the component has a unique name, which will be used to identify it later.
2. Import the Visual Components COM Interface to your project
This step imports the Visual Components COM interfaces to your project and implements IvcClient, which is necessary for embedding ActiveX components to 3DCreate.
2.1 Import the Visual Components COM Interface type libraries to your project, using ‘Project > References….’ You need to check the following type libraries:
• Visual Components COM Library
• Visual Components 3DCreate Typ Library
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