AutoCAD .NET
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It's quite common for AutoCAD developers to use Extended Entity Data (XData) to tag objects their application cares about. This is certainly the approach taken in the recent series showing how to overrule the graphics display for an object – we store a "pipe radius" in XData attached to the Line or Circle we want […]
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A huge thank you to Zeljko Gjuranic for providing this code for a guest post. The code is based on a paper of Zeljko's that was published in issue 11 of KoG magazine. The original paper is available in Croatian with an abstract in English. The code in this post asks the user to select […]
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To continue my investigations into IronPython and the fun I'm having with overrules, I decided to to port my most recent C# overrule implementation across to IronPython. I've also been trying to do the same for IronRuby, but – so far – without luck. Please refer back to one of the previous IronPython posts for […]
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As mentioned in a comment on a recent post, Stephen Preston, our DevTech Americas Manager, has put together a useful tool and accompanying DevTV session to help people migrate their VBA code to VB.NET. The resultant code uses COM Interop to call into AutoCAD. AutoCAD VBA to .NET Migration Basics view download (44.3 Mb) Stephen […]
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Sorry if the title is a little abrupt, but it seemed too good an opportunity to show off my now appalling poetry skills. [Something almost no-one knows (well, OK, knew) about me is that, at the age of 8, I was the youngest winner of a poetry competition. I went along to the King's Lynn […]
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I am really starting to love the new Overrule API in AutoCAD 2010, and I still feel as though I'm just scratching the surface. This question came in overnight from Danny Polkinhorn (thanks, Danny! 🙂 : It's exciting to see a very usable implementation of 'custom' objects in .NET. Obviously, this implementation protects what could […]
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In the last post we looked at some code that attaches additional data to individual entities, allowing them to be drawn independently with different visual properties via the new Overrule API in AutoCAD 2010. A couple of comments – one from Qun, who provided the original F# sample, and one from Tony Tanzillo – have […]
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In the last post we looked at some C# code to customize the display of all Lines and Circles within AutoCAD, adding a thickness (or a diameter) to make them look more like pipes. This was, in turn, based on this F# post. The previous code implemented an overrule that allowed us to insert our […]
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The code in this post is a direct port of the F# code in this previous post, which was entered by Qun Lu in the recent F# programming contest. Someone – very validly - commented on the fact the post involved both a new language and a new API, which was probably pushing things a little from […]
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In the last post I introduced a very simple "Hello World!" IronRuby application working with AutoCAD, just as I'd previously done with IronPython. My idea for this post was to take the code from my second IronPython post – which showed how to jig an AutoCAD solid from IronPython – and get it working with […]