2015
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Back when FARO announced their new Freestyle3D handheld scanner, I contacted them to see whether they might have one for me to take a look at. They very kindly obliged, and a few weeks ago I received a loaner model in the post. I won't be writing an exhaustive review – at least not in […]
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A little while ago you may remember an HTML progress meter I created while looking at "future API features". The API feature in question was of course for AutoCAD 2016, and related to the extraction of floorplans programmatically using .NET, a topic we're covering in today's post. We're going to see some fairly basic code […]
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I'm making the most of a late flurry of snow in the alps, this week, finishing up the winter season on the slopes with my family. And I'm going from the snow to the sun next week, as I head across to Singapore for some internal planning meetings. I do expect to blog pretty much […]
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Thanks for all the interactions, yesterday. April 1st is really one of my favourite days of the year: there's lightheartedness and creative energy everywhere you look. But all good things come to an end – even if the years seem to tick by increasingly quickly – so it's time for more serious matters. Today's post […]
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I'm excited to announce the newest member of the Autodesk product portfolio, Autodesk SoCap. The term "SoCap" stands for "Software Capture", in much the same way as ReCap stands for "Reality Capture". SoCap is a tool that helps you capture existing software behaviour as code, just as ReCap helps you capture a 3D scene as […]
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Last week we introduced the ExecuteInCommandContextAsync() method and saw it in action from a context menu click event. In today's post we're going to see how it can be used for a lot more: we're going to use it to respond to external, operating system-level events (although admittedly we're handling the event in-process to AutoCAD […]
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Some time ago we posted the NuGet packages for AutoCAD 2015's .NET API. The packages for AutoCAD 2016 are now live, too. Here's the report from the NuGet console (accessible in Visual Studio via Tools –> NuGet Package Manager –> Package Manager Console). PM> Get-Package -filter AutoCAD.NET -ListAvailable Id Version Description/Release Notes -- ------- […]
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It's time to start looking in more detail at some of the new API capabilities in AutoCAD 2016. To give you a sense of what to expect in terms of a timeline, this week we'll look at a couple of uses for DocumentCollection.ExecuteInCommandContextAsync() and next week we'll look at point cloud floorplan extraction and (hopefully) […]
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After our quick look at AutoCAD 2016 from a user perspective, let's now spend some time looking at the things important to developers in this latest release. Compatibility Off the bat it's worth stating that AutoCAD 2016 is a DWG compatible release: it's using the same file format as AutoCAD 2013, 2014 and 2015. It's […]
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It's that time again! Over the coming days you're going to be hearing lots about the next release of AutoCAD, codenamed "Maestro". Before taking a look at AutoCAD 2016 from a developer's perspective – which we'll do next time – in this post we're going to take a quick look at its user features. To […]