2015
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It's insane how the years tick past. Today marks the 9th anniversary of Through the Interface. For a bit of fun, I've added an Easter Egg (well, actually it's more like a Birthday Cake) to Vrok.it: Choose the "Cake" button on the left to view a Birthday Cake modelled completely using AutoCAD. If you connect to […]
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Now that we've introduced how the CRX will be loaded by AutoCAD I/O – via an Autoloader bundle – we're going to take a look at the code needed to create and test our Activity using it. As a starting point – and as mentioned last time – you should get hold of the code […]
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After introducing the series and looking at the additional code needed for a .NET CRX app to work with AutoCAD I/O, in this post we're going to go the extra small step to prepare the Autoloader manifest, getting it ready to create the Activity and its AppPackage. To simplify the process of developing this app, […]
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As promised yesterday, this post deals with modifying your CRX module to make it work with AutoCAD I/O. A quick reminder on what writing a CRX app means for .NET developers: we're still creating a .DLL (unlike ObjectARX developers, whose CRX modules have the .crx extension), but it can only reference AcDbMgd.dll and AcCoreMgd.dll (not […]
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Over the coming weeks I'm going to be exploring – and blogging about – the ability to run custom .NET code inside AutoCAD I/O. After all, I've submitted an AU class on the topic, so I really do need to get my head around it. 🙂 I see this series being made up of the […]
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It's live! Our entry for the recent VR Hackathon in San Francisco has received a significant amount of spit and polish (OK, perhaps not the best mental image) over the last couple of weeks and is now ready for prime time (i.e. Beta testing ;-). Check it out at http://vrok.it! It should work well with […]
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I wanted to post on a more in-depth topic, today, but I've been heads-down working on our project from the recent VR Hackathon, getting ready to push it live. We've made really good progress over the last few days, especially considering it's only a part-time project for Lars, Oleg and myself. We've implemented per-session support […]
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I spent some time back down at our local Fab Lab, today, finishing the laser cutting work for the jigsaw project I mentioned previously. Since I last mentioned it, we managed to procure some Plexiglas – in our case it was Perspex, in fact – and cut various sections of the puzzle, with each piece […]
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As promised (threatened?) back in February, this blog has finally received a much-needed design refresh. I had hoped to get our internal creative team to help with this, but that unfortunately didn't pan out: all issues that you come across are therefore the responsibility of yours truly. Here are the key changes in this refresh: […]
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Yesterday we introduced the need to sign program modules for AutoCAD 2016. Today we're going to see how AutoCAD behaves when loading signed and unsigned modules, as well as what the innards of a signed LISP module look like. Here's a simple piece of AutoLISP code that I've placed in a file called c:/temp/MyModule.lsp: (defun […]