AutoCAD .NET
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I almost named this post to make it clear it's about a new API capability in AutoCAD 2015, but then I wouldn't have had the slightly perverse satisfaction of resurrecting a series of posts after 7.5 years. Here are the first parts in this series, in case you've forgotten them (and you'd be forgiven for […]
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I had an email from Martin Duke about this old post a couple of weeks ago. I started to update the original post but then realised that a) I couldn't easily go that far back using Windows Live Writer and the built-in Typepad editor often messes up code in old posts when I edit them […]
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After a little fun last Tuesday around a pink theme for AutoCAD – for which I got at least a few "we should totally do that"s from internal folk in response, so watch this space 😉 – today we're going to talk more seriously about what's needed to support the dark theme in your applications. […]
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During the AutoCAD team's efforts to introduce the dark theme in the 2015 version, work was done to more easily support additional themes. A lot of work was needed to create the underlying mechanism but now it's really easy to add your own themes. To test the mechanism, the AutoCAD team has created a sample […]
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photo credit: Marcin Wichary via photopin cc As mentioned in the last post, fibers are now inactive in AutoCAD 2015 (the code paths are still there, largely for testing purposes, but should not need to be enabled for typical usage of the product). Fibers were a technology that Microsoft introduced way back when to help […]
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I've just arrived home from a 10-day trip to the Bay Area. It was a really interesting visit – as usual – but I'm happy to be home (even if I'm writing this at 3am, once again fighting jetlag). The news has started to come out about AutoCAD 2015 – much of it fed by […]
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To follow on from yesterday's post, today we're going to look at a reliable way to determine the language of the AutoCAD product hosting your .NET module. Thanks to Troy Louden for sharing this technique. Here's the C# code implementing it: using System.Globalization; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime; namespace LanguageInfo { public class Commands […]
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I'm starting to get ready for a trip to the US: I'm heading out on Monday and will be home on Thursday of the following week. While I expect I'll have time to write a few posts during the trip – thank you, jetlag! – I'm going to write a couple of very simple ones […]
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Many of you will have seen last week's announcement about the creation of the Autodesk Foundation. The foundation has been set up to formalise something that's long been part of Autodesk's culture: supporting charitable causes through direct investment, software donation and matching of employee gifts. This formalisation will also bring greater alignment around our support […]
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Augusto Gonçalves, from our ADN team in Latin America, pointed me to the fact that we're holding a Spanish-language AutoCAD .NET API training class in Lima, Peru on April 7-8, 2014 (followed by one on the Revit API on April 9). To register, please complete this survey.