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AutoCAD API wishlist survey

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Hot on the heels of my last post regarding this year's API wishlist surveys, Stephen Preston has announced on the AutoCAD DevBlog the launch of this year's AutoCAD API wishlist survey.

The survey will remain open until June 22nd, but don't delay – you'll find it very quick to complete. This year's survey has a somewhat different format: it has a number of questions dedicated to understanding your needs around AutoCAD WS and developing for the cloud. This doesn't mean we're no longer interested in the desktop – nothing could be further from the truth – so be sure to use the survey to let us know your requirements for full AutoCAD, too.

7 responses to “AutoCAD API wishlist survey”

  1. James Maeding Avatar
    James Maeding

    Kean, the questions are rather simplistic don't you think? They start by asking my preferred language, but actually I prefer lisp for some things, .net for others.
    I feel like they are setting things up to support anything that could happen.
    Reality is they need to ask about each api, not somehow divide and conquer to all our disadvantage.
    Who designed the surveys anyway?

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  2. Kean Walmsley Avatar
    Kean Walmsley

    James,

    I've been heavily involved in designing these surveys, over the years (although I didn't design this one). It's always a challenge to find a balance between getting actionable information and not asking pages and pages of questions (the number of responses you receive drops with each question you add).

    Something else to consider: some of the questions have deliberately not been changed to allow us to spot trends by comparing the results, year-on-year.

    Regards,

    Kean

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  3. Jesus Estevez @jecaestevez Avatar
    Jesus Estevez @jecaestevez

    Hello,

    I’m a
    newbie using AutoCad Apis and my first question as a newbie is about the different
    types of APIS, as I read so much about ObjectArx but does another AutoCad native Managed .NET API exist
    to avoid used ObjectArx?

    Or is it the same
    ObjectArx than Autocad Native API?

    Because I read some
    classes like Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices
    , Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices etc but I can’t find documentation
    about this.

    I'm @dotNet_develop

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    1. Kean Walmsley Avatar
      Kean Walmsley

      AutoCAD's .NET API is a wrapper around ObjectARX.

      Kean

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      1. Jesus Estevez @jecaestevez Avatar
        Jesus Estevez @jecaestevez

        ahh ok So the full API is ObjectARX and AutoCAD's .NET API .

        And for use the AutoCAD's .NET API I just have to references to the dll that are in the installation folder of AutocCad , am I right?

        Thanks

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        1. Kean Walmsley Avatar
          Kean Walmsley

          Better to download the ObjectARX SDK and use the similarly-named DLLs from the inc folder. Those versions have a lot of the internals removed (with exactly the same API) and make for better integration with Visual Studio. Make sure to set CopyLocal to false for all the references, by the way.

          Kean

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          1. Jesus Estevez @jecaestevez Avatar
            Jesus Estevez @jecaestevez

            Ok now I've the idea clear, that was the way I'm working but I wanted to know if I was right.

            Thanks

            Reply

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