AutoCAD .NET
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All last week we focused on Autodesk Exchange, looking at the steps needed for preparing, submitting and re-submitting your app for inclusion on the Apps tab. I won't dwell too much more on the topic, but did just want to give some quick, high-level tips for people thinking about posting apps for inclusion on Autodesk […]
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In the last post, we saw the steps involved in preparing an AutoCAD application for posting to the Autodesk Exchange store. In this post, we'll step through the submission process. Let's start with some basics: posting to Autodesk Exchange currently happens from within the AutoCAD product, which means you'll need AutoCAD 2012 installed (and running) […]
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Back when we were first creating the Exchange Store, I went through the process of preparing several of our Plugins of the Month for posting to Autodesk Exchange. After a break of several months, I've now gone back and readied September's plugin (TransTips, now on Autodesk Labs) for posting, also. It seemed to make sense […]
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Starting next week – and for 8 weeks – Wayne Brill, from DevTech Americas, will be delivering free online AutoCAD .NET training. To register – yes, for free – go to our API Training page and select "Schedule", then scroll down to "AutoCAD .NET", "English", "Webcast", "Sep 08 2011" and click "Register" at the far […]
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In the 2010 release, we introduced 2D geometric constraints to AutoCAD. The feature was implemented using AutoCAD's low-level – and very powerful – Associative Framework, which has subsequently been used to implement features such as parametric surfaces in AutoCAD 2011 (more information on that here). Our initial API implementation for creating and accessing geometric constraints […]
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Actually, I wish that were true. I'm planning on taking some time off in October, but that seems a long way off, at this stage. What I've actually been doing is working with some REST-based APIs: firstly, I've been finishing up work on September's Plugin of the Month, TransTips for AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, & 3ds […]
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Visual C# Express and Visual Basic Express can be used successfully to build .NET applications for AutoCAD: in fact many developers use these tools to do so. One long-standing issue with using these tools with AutoCAD relates to debugging: the ability to debug using an external application is not directly exposed via the user interface […]
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The class catalog for Autodesk University 2011 is now available to preview in advance of the conference registration opening up on August 30th. Here are the sessions I'm either presenting or hosting: CP3840 Integrating Microsoft® Kinect™ with AutoCAD® Lecture Nov 30, 3:15pm CP4459-U AutoCAD® .NET Development: Tools and Best Practices Unconf-erence Dec 1, 1:15pm I'm […]
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In the last post, we looked at how to stop entities from being highlighted during selection. This post looks at how to stop entities from being selected at all. Thanks again to Balaji Ramamoorthy for providing the underlying technique shown in today's code. The basic scenario we're using is similar to the last post – […]
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Thanks to Balaji Ramamoorthy, from DevTech India, for the basis of this post (some code he provided in a recent reply to an ADN member). The original question came from someone who wanted to stop text objects from being highlighted when selected. I've extended the mechanism to make it a little more flexible: it now […]