AutoCAD .NET
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This topic is a little on the advanced side - it requires the use of C++ and some knowledge of COM - but I felt it was worth covering, as you can get some interesting results without a huge amount of effort. Since we introduced the Properties Palette (once known as the Object Property Manager […]
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In this previous post we looked at a basic task dialog inside AutoCAD and exercised its various capabilities without showing how they might be used in a real application. This post goes beyond that to show how you might make use of the TaskDialog class to provide your users with relevant information at runtime that […]
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This is a topic I've been meaning to get to for some time... as I finally had to research it for a side project I'm working on, I decided to go ahead and post my findings here. AutoCAD 2009 makes heavy use of task dialogs, which are basically message-boxes on steroids. MSDN contains documentation on […]
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This comment came in from a developer on a previous post: We still do all our stuff w/C++/STL/COM/MFC; lots of custom entities and object behavior - for Civil 3D/Land Desktop/Map -- hence, I'm not Dot Netted. The predominate explanation I've heard to move from C++ to .Net is that UI is maybe easier to write...but […]
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The question of how to define a new table style programmatically has come up a couple of times over the last week or so, so this post shows how to approach this. I've used the code from this previous post as a basis for this post's. The important thing to know is that TableStyle objects […]
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Thanks again to Augusto Gonçalves, from our DevTech Americas team, for providing the original VB.NET code for this sample, as well as helping investigate an issue I faced during implementation. When I saw a recent reply to a developer, showing how to implement a custom object snap in AutoCAD using .NET, I had a really […]
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This post continues on from Part 1 of this series. You'll find much of this content has been used before in these previous posts, although post does include content updated for F# 1.9.6.2 (the September 2008 CTP). The first thing we need to do is – as with any AutoCAD .NET project – add project […]
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AU Unplugged is the unconference component of Autodesk University. The sessions have been submitted and the voting is now on: based on external feedback the event organizers will schedule the most interesting classes at this year's event. Last year I held a poorly publicized (and therefore poorly attended 🙂 session on comparative AutoCAD development tools/technologies, […]
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As mentioned in my previous post, I've been beavering away on the handout for a new class I'm delivering at this year's Autodesk University. Here is the first part of this handout. Introduction F# is a new programming language from Microsoft, due to become a first-class .NET citizen (joining its siblings C# and VB.NET) and […]
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Here's a question that came in to us, recently: How can I show the AutoCAD color dialog from .NET? I need to allow the user to select a block, show the AutoCAD color dialog and apply the selected color to the contents of the selected block. A new member of DevTech Americas - Augusto Gonçalves, […]