AutoCAD .NET
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[I've now started pushing links to my posts out through Twitter, even if I haven't gone quite so far as to abandon TypePad (yes, it was an April Fools' joke, in case anyone missed the closing comment :-)]. Having spent some time looking into Python, I decided to give Ruby – another popular scripting language […]
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This post is one of the winning entries of the F# programming contest started at the beginning of the year. It was submitted by an old friend of mine, Qun Lu, who also happens to be a member of the AutoCAD engineering team, and makes use of a new API in AutoCAD 2010: the somewhat […]
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A big thanks to Stephen Preston, who manages DevTech Americas and coordinates our worldwide AutoCAD workgroup as well as spending time working with the AutoCAD Engineering team (phew!), for providing this sample. Stephen originally put it together for our annual Developer Days tour late last year: I took the original sample, converted it from VB.NET […]
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After getting my feet wet in the last post with my first IronPython application running inside AutoCAD, I decided it was time to attack a slightly more challenging problem: jigging a database-resident Solid3d object. The idea had come after I'd received a question by email from David Wolfe, who wanted to have a fully rendered […]
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I've been meaning to play around with the Python language for some time, now, and with the recent release of IronPython 2 it seems a good time to start. Why Python? A number of people in my team – including Jeremy Tammik and the people within our Media & Entertainment workgroup who support Python's use […]
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Thanks, once again, to Philippe Leefsma, a DevTech engineer based in Prague, for contributing the code for this post. While researching an issue he was working on Philippe stumbled across a comment on this previous post where I more-or-less said jigging attributes wasn't possible. Ahem. Anyway, Philippe decided to – quite rightly – prove me […]
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In the last post we looked at the code behind an ObjectARX module exposing AutoCAD's Properties Palette for use from managed .NET languages. Thanks again to Cyrille Fauvel for providing this implementation. In this post we're going to move right onto using this implementation from C#. First things first: if you didn't understand much of […]
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A huge thanks to Cyrille Fauvel, who manages DevTech's Media & Entertainment team but still finds the time to dip into the odd deeply-technical, AutoCAD-related issue. Cyrille provided the original article on this topic late last year, but it's taken me time to get around to editing and publishing it. A quick tip... if you're […]
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In the last post we looked at some code that essentially dumped out the dynamic properties of dynamic blocks to the command-line. In this post we take it a step further and capture the properties from one dynamic block reference and attempt to apply them to another. We're going to apply slightly different logic, depending […]
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This is one of those funny scenarios... I was just thinking about what to do for my next post - whether to dive into some new features of AutoCAD 2010 (which I will do soon, I promise! 🙂 or whether to choose something from my ever-increasing to-do list, when I received two emails. One was […]