June 2006
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A number of additional fixes have been included in this Service Pack, with one being of particular interest to our development partners. If you use the Civil 3D API via COM Interop from Visual Studio 2005 (and possibly earlier versions of Visual Studio .NET), you will no longer be able to build your application once […]
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The AutoCAD Engineering first prototyped a "managed" (for "managed" read ".NET") API for AutoCAD 2004. It was pretty revolutionary stuff at the time - a mixed-mode DLL was created to expose the managed interface and marshall these calls through to "unmanaged" ObjectARX calls. There were a number of reasons .NET was - and remains - […]
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This is a huge topic, so I'm not going to be able to do it justice in this one post. Applications developed using AutoCAD's APIs need to be tested (and sometimes ported) to make sure they work with a new release of the AutoCAD platform. For several generations of AutoCAD we have consciously chosen to […]
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I thought I'd mention one of the projects we're working on in DevTech right now. We're planning a webcast for later this year, to talk our developers through the various technologies Autodesk provides to create/access/view native DWG data and published DWF data. Here's the idea: we show the generation of native DWG data using AutoCAD […]
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Autodesk has a wide range of products that expose Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), to the point that it can be a bit overwhelming for developers new to our products. A great place to look for introductory information around developing with Autodesk software is the Developer Center on Autodesk.com: http://www.autodesk.com/developer From here you will be able […]
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I'm very pleased to be part of a great team at Autodesk: the Developer Technical Services team (DevTech), whose focus is on providing high quality services to members of the Autodesk Developer Network. Aside from providing technical support for programming-related questions, we also write technical solutions (which we call DevNotes), present at technical conferences, provide […]
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Welcome to "Through the Interface", a blog dedicated to programmers working with Autodesk technologies. My team, Autodesk's Developer Technical Services (DevTech), provides technical services to members of the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN), including programming support, consulting, training and evangelism. I'll be using this blog to share technical information about the use of our various Application […]