AutoCAD .NET
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A regular follower of this blog and someone I now consider a friend through our online interactions, Alex Fielder, recently laid down the gauntlet for the topic of the coming series of posts. He started with Twitter… … and then moved on to The Swamp (which he thankfully also brought to my attention using Twitter). […]
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A couple of recent posts have covered different ways of checking whether a point is on a curve. This post looks at a rudimentary way of profiling the relative performance of these various methods, in order to determine the best approach to use, in general. There are various performance profiling technologies available on the market, […]
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One great thing about having an engaged blog readership is that people catch issues quickly (which helps keep me honest :-). When I posted late on a Friday night (under self-imposed pressure to get a third post up in a four-day first week back after the holidays), I suspected I'd missed something. I even checked […]
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Occasionally I come across a topic that I'm sure I've addressed in a previous post, but for the life of me I can't track it down. The code in a recent response by Balaji Ramamoorthy, from the DevTech India team, fits firmly into this category: it shows how to iterate through a polyline's segments, testing […]
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Thanks to Matt Stein, Senior User Experience Manager in the AutoCAD team, for giving me permission to publish the following information. In this previous post, we can see how it's possible to display our own contextual ribbon tabs inside AutoCAD during custom operations. To help make applications consistent with AutoCAD, here are some guidelines around […]
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The implementation in this recent post to display a "Help!" message to the screen was well received by the person requesting it, but they ended up also wanting a command to display a message in the case that the user has help to offer other members of the class. Which basically meant a great opportunity […]
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Thanks, once again, to Scott McFarlane for working his magic and finding a simple way to make an approach work that I'd convinced myself wasn't workable. (He took the implementation in my last post and adjusted it to work via a non-static event – something I had tried to do myself, but had somehow failed… […]
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In the last post, we saw some code that provided a relatively crude mechanism for finding out when a particular custom palette set gets closed by the user. In this post, we encapsulate this technique in a new class – which I've called PaletteSet2, for the want of a better name – that can be […]
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I've just come back from the last of the European DevDays in the UK. It was fun being back in my home country so close to Christmas, and the event itself seemed to go well. It was great to catch up with some developers I've known since my early years at Autodesk, some of whom […]
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This recent request came into my inbox from our discussion group support team: I know that this is not strictly an AutoCAD 2012 issue, BUT as her CAD teacher it's my job to do the best I can for all of my students so I'm reaching out and asking for help. I have a severely […]