AutoCAD .NET
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An interesting query came into my inbox, last week. A member of one of our internal product teams was looking to programmatically modify the contents of an external reference file. She was using the code in this helpful DevBlog post, but was running into issues. She was using WblockCloneObjects() to copy a block definition across […]
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I received this request from Mateusz Andrzejczak, over the weekend: I have problem with LineTypeDialog. Your part of the code is working perfectly, but i have problem with modifying the values. I have a SelectionSet that holds all object that are selected with using a filter. I want to use LineTypeDialog to select linetype and […]
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Happy Friday! It's time to unveil the completed Star Wars opening crawl inside AutoCAD… After an intro and seeing various pieces implemented, in today's post we're going to add the crawl text and animate its movement into the distance. The initial blue text The theme music The star field The disappearing Star Wars logo The […]
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Now that we've introduced the series and seen how to add some introductory text, theme music and a field of stars, it's time for the Star Wars logo. The initial blue text The theme music The star field The disappearing Star Wars logo The crawling text The logo came, once again, from the HTML opening […]
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After introducing this series in the last post, today we're going to address the first 3 items on our TODO list: The initial blue text The theme music The star field The disappearing Star Wars logo The crawling text The following two items are fairly significant, in their own right, so they'll each take a […]
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Happy New Year, everyone! As mentioned in the last post, I took a couple of weeks off over the holiday period, extending Autodesk's annual "week of rest" between Christmas and New Year to a full fortnight. This time of year clearly has religious significance for many. Some go to church, to temple or even to […]
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We've received this request a few times in recent years: .NET developers have asked to be able to add dependencies on AutoCAD's .NET reference assemblies – primarily acmgd.dll, acdbmgd.dll and accoremgd.dll – to their Visual Studio projects using the built-in package management tool, NuGet. For those of you unfamiliar with NuGet, it's well worth checking […]
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[This handout is for "SD5013 - Using SensorTag as a Low-Cost Sensor Array for AutoCAD", a 60-minute class I'll be presenting at AU 2014. Here's the sample project that accompanies this handout.] Introducing SensorTag SensorTag is a $25 device containing a number of sensors – an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetometer, a thermometer, a […]
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It seems like I've been living in JavaScript land (and no, I deliberately didn't say "hell" – it's actually been fun 🙂 for the last few weeks, between one thing or another. But I think I've finally put the finishing touches on the last of the JavaScript API samples I've prepared for AU 2014. This […]
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To follow on from yesterday's post, today we're going to look at two C# source files that work with the HTML page – and referenced JavaScript files – which I will leave online rather than reproducing here. As a brief reminder of the functionality – if you haven't yet watched the screencast shown last time […]