AutoCAD .NET
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I wasn't planning on posting to this blog again, this week – three times per week is enough, I find, so I tend to save any leftovers for the week after – but this question James Maeding asked is very much related to this week's posts, and – in any case – I already have […]
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In the first post in this series, we saw how to disable AutoCAD's ribbon. In the second post, we saw how to make (with some caveats) AutoCAD's toolbars disappear. In this post we're going to throw all that away and show how to get better results with a single line of code. <sigh> But before […]
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It turns out that the forum request I attempted to cover in the last post – handily re-interpreted to deal with something I knew how to do 😉 – was in fact about toolbars, rather than the ribbon. In this post we're going to look at how to disable toolbars – and re-enable them – […]
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I came across this interesting question on the AutoCAD .NET forum, posted by Pete Elliott: When AutoCAD is loading, I see that my toolbars are disabled (grayed-out) until the loading has finished. Our company does some additional data loading after AutoCAD has become idle. But if the user clicks certain custom toolbar buttons while our […]
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Many, many thanks for the congratulatory messages I received after my last post, whether via this blog, Twitter, LinkedIn or email. I was genuinely overwhelmed by the response! 🙂 Here's a post I've been meaning to write for some time: a common question I've seen, over the years, is about how best to implement copy […]
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This is a topic that has been addressed a few times on this blog, whether by posts that use the 3D graphics system to capture screenshots or the series of posts regarding the Screenshot Plugin of the Month from a few years ago. I thought it worth revisiting, though, as I noticed an API that I […]
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This question came up during last week's accelerator, and is part of the reason I spent creating the last post: is it possible to selectively unlock certain layers for the duration of commands that have been specified by the user? Let's take an example: you have layers that should remain locked, apart from when using […]
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On Friday I visited Munich Airport: not only to catch a flight home to Switzerland but also to take a look at some AutoCAD issues frustrating the developers working on the airport's facilities management system. During the course of the day we were able to work through a number of problems – such as using […]
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It's been a hectic – but very fun – few days in Munich, working with a group of 60-70 developers from all over Europe who are getting started with Autodesk's cloud services. I'm particularly focused on those working with AutoCAD I/O, which means probably 5-6 companies in total. Here's a quick summary of some of […]
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I wasn't planning on writing another part in this series, just yet, but then I got a little carried away with some refactoring work and decided it deserved a post of its own. I wasn't fully happy with the code in the last post. The DecomposeCurve() function simply did too much: it opened a curve, […]