AutoCAD .NET
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After seeing the feedback regarding this interesting feature in AutoCAD 2013, I decided to do a little detective work to establish which commands could be called from inside the AutoCAD 2013 Core Console. I hope this proves to be of use to at least some of the many people I expect to take advantage of […]
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Thanks to some recent coverage on a Channel 9 blog (which I consider a great honour – I've been a huge fan of Channel 9 since its inception :-), I decided to get around to posting an update to the AutoCAD + Kinect samples I demonstrated at AU 2011. While attending the recent hackathon, I […]
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As promised in my last post, I spent some time hacking together a basic application to get a feel for what it's like to develop inside the WinRT sandbox for Windows 8. If you're interested in the source code, here it is. Be warned: the code is really just to prove a concept – there's […]
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Inspired by the Windows 8 conference I attended on Monday, I've decided to build my first Metro-style application which scrolls through AutoCAD's Most-Recently-Used (MRU) drawing list. I now have a barebones installation of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview + VS11 Beta inside a Parallels VM on my Mac, but rather than installing AutoCAD into that, […]
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This post was inspired by an email I saw from Philippe Leefsma, from DevTech EMEA, which made use of the Autodesk.AutoCAD.Windows.Data namespace – something I didn't even know existed. The specific example Philippe showed was how to access the list of hatch patterns available in the current drawing without iterating through the relevant dictionary in […]
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Following on from our look at the Core Console, Dynamic .NET and .NET migration for AutoCAD 2013, today we're going to look briefly at the remaining API features in the AutoCAD 2013 release. Model Documentation The model documentation feature was introduced in AutoCAD 2012 – simplifying creation of 2D sections and details of 3D drawing […]
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I'm on my way to San Francisco for some internal meetings (including a Hackathon, over the weekend, which should be fun), but have unfortunately been held up at Heathrow by fog (it delayed my inbound flight, along with many others', but somehow didn't stop my outbound flight from leaving, which always seems to be the […]
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Another really interesting, developer-oriented feature in AutoCAD 2013 is something we've been calling "Dynamic .NET". I don't know whether that's official branding, or not – I suspect not – but it's the moniker we've been using to describe this capability internally and to ADN members. The capability is based on an addition to .NET in […]
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In the first of this week's posts on the new, developer-oriented features in AutoCAD 2013, we're going to take a look at the AutoCAD Core Console. I predict that this one feature alone is going to be worth its weight in gold to many customers and developers. Picture this: a stripped down version of AutoCAD […]
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As we're nearing the end of this series, it seems a good time to do a quick recap of where we've been with the posts leading up to this point. Here goes… An interesting challenge: generating variable density fill patterns for 3D printing Generating hyperbolic geometry on a Poincaré disk in AutoCAD using .NET Generating […]