Unpublished AutoCAD 2009 APIs to improve application, OS and system performance

Apr 1, 2008

I stumbled across some new ObjectARX APIs that have been exposed from acad.exe in AutoCAD 2009.

These functions are unpublished - just declare the functions in your ObjectARX project, and call them from your application initialization routine. I think you'll find the results surprising!

extern fool acedMakeAutoCADMuchQuicker(bool enable);
extern fool acedPreventWindowsBlueScreen(bool enable);
extern fool acedDoubleSystemClockSpeed(bool enable);

OK, before anyone actually wastes time on this, happy April Fool's Day. 🙂

5 responses to “Unpublished AutoCAD 2009 APIs to improve application, OS and system performance”

Fernando Malard

April 1, 2008 at 3:18 pm

Ok, I can add some other ones:

fool acdbImplementCustomClassDotNetWrapper(MyClass);
fool acedPreventAllFatalErrors();
fool acedPreventAllAssertViolations();
fool acedAllowDebugIntoAutoCADSourceCode();

The list is huge... 🙂
Regards.

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xuxi

April 2, 2008 at 12:36 pm

More useful and powerful Apis as below:
extern fool acedUpgradeTo2010RightNow();
extern fool acedUpgradeXPToVista();
extern fool acedUpgradePentiumToXeon();
extern fool acedConvertTo3DMax();
extern fool acedConvertToMaya();
extern fool acedConvertToInvetor();
extern fool acedConvertToRevit();
extern fool acedConvertToAnyAdskProduct(AdskProductName productName);

🙂

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Sam

April 3, 2008 at 8:27 am

Some People are Just Cruel :S

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Dirk Gebhard

July 3, 2008 at 8:28 pm

Hi Kean,
what is a Declaration of 'fool'. My ObjectARX 2009 Application can't understand 'fool'

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Kean Walmsley

July 3, 2008 at 8:31 pm

Hi Dirk,

This was an April Fool's Day post, so you won't get it to work. Sorry to have got your hopes up.

Kean

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