COM "Class Not Registered" Error

I kept getting this error when trying to use Doodlebug: Solution exception:Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {B0D0A647-983E-485B-9A69-45F0382F0D9C} failed due to the following error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)). I'm not familiar with a lot of the magic and programming languages behind how this plugin works between Rhino and Illustrator, but I did a bunch of prodding trying to find a way to use Illustrator CC 2017 with it.

In the end I couldn't. But I installed CC 2015 (19.0.0) and it worked perfectly. This is on my personal laptop running Windows 10, with Illustrator installed at its default position on the C drive. No other more recent version worked for me, but I think that's more of a problem with my own dying laptop.

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Permalink Reply by Shaun on March 17, 2017 at 3:45pm

Hey Chuck Thanks for the DL this worked for me!!

Playing around with it I've tried to create something similar to what you show in the gif on your website Andrew. So far it looks like its sending to illustrator the curves stacked in a top view. Am I missing some sort of 3d view in illustrator. Or a specific viewport to send from GH?

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Jim Marsh on April 7, 2017 at 8:30am

Chuck,

For some reason I don't have a "Reply" button for your last post.

"RhinoCommon" I was able to relink. I don't have Grasshopper in my Rhino folder under appdata. Instead it is broken out as its own program. I checked to make sure I'm on version .76 and I am. I'm having trouble finding both "Grasshopper" and "GH_IO" .dll. I can't find the "Illustrator.dll", but I did understand you about linking it below under "IllustratorInterface".

EDIT: I found both Grasshopper files by searching the whole C drive. They were in ProgramFiles > Common Files. "Illustrator.dll" still MIA.

Permalink Reply by Shong on October 21, 2017 at 7:22am

I just found the illustrator reference. , here it is

Right click on References-> Add reference

After clicking on Add reference, a window popout, click on "COM", find Adobe illustrator CC Type Library, check it. and there are no error messages anymore.

This is the first time I am able to answer questions on grasshopper3d, so happy.

and thank Andrew Heumann for developing awesome plugins!

Permalink Reply by Olivier Dambron on November 7, 2017 at 3:40am

Hi Chuck,

I have been using doodlebug for while now and this error popped:

1. Solution exception:Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Illustrator.Application'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{95CD20AA-AD72-11D3-B086-0010A4F5C335}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).

I have tried to rebuild the solution and add the references on VS, though the same error shows. Any tip on this one ?

Cheers,
Olivier

ps: is it necessary to add all of these files to the Gh LIbraries folder?

Permalink Reply by Olivier Dambron on November 7, 2017 at 4:38am

installed Illustrator 2018, rebuilt solution with correct references and it's on!

Permalink Reply by Pmpetros on November 28, 2017 at 10:25am

Hi Oliver,

Would you mind sharing the files for the people that don't have VS, like me. :)

Permalink Reply by Olivier Dambron on June 1, 2018 at 6:10am

Sorry for the late reply, here is my build

Attachments:

IllustratorInterop.zip, 129 KB

Permalink Reply by Pmpetros on May 5, 2019 at 3:40pm

I put together a video explaining step-by-step how to install doodlebug on which ever build you have. Also, I rebuilt the plugin for Rhino 6 and illustrator CC 2019. Both of which can be found here on my blog:

doodlebug-grasshopper-and-illustrator-workflow

Permalink Reply by Mexy on February 19, 2020 at 11:48am

Hi Pmpetros,

Thank you for your solution. I tried but unfortunately failed. After switching .NET Framework to 4.5, the red checker mark won't go away. Any idea why did that happen? I have rhino 6 SR22 and Ai 2020 CC.