AutoCAD .NET
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Another quick post, as I'm just about to head back home after a long week in Boston. This post comes from a technical solution provided by Sreekar Devatha, from DevTech India. I won't go into detail regarding the following code, but it should be fairly clear what's going on: from a particular colour-name it looks […]
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In parts 1 & 2 of this series we looked at metaprogramming with AutoCAD using AutoLISP and VB(A), and then using VB.NET and C#. In this post we're going to look at what's possible from F#, through the lens of my relative inexperience with the language, of course. The quotations mechanism in F# appears to […]
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In this post we're going to continue the topic started in Part 1 of this series, which looked briefly at metaprogramming with AutoCAD using AutoLISP and VB(A). Now we're going to look at .NET, focusing initially on C# and VB.NET. [I found the inspiration for the code in this post from The Code Project, although […]
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A recent comment on one of my F# articles got me thinking about this topic (thanks, Thomas! :-), so I thought I'd write a few posts on it. Next week is AU, and the week after that I'm attending a training class in Boston, so posts may be a little sparse over the coming weeks. […]
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In one of my sessions at this year's AU, "There's More to .DWG Than AutoCAD®", I'll be showing some VB.NET code that goes through and collects information about solids, presenting it in a dialog along with the sum of the various volumes. You can get the code and the results from Part 1 of the […]
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I've been working through some draft chapters of Don Syme's Expert F# book (posted here, while the final version will be available in hardcover from early December). I'm definitely enjoying working with F#: the beauty of functional programming combined with the flexibility of .NET is a killer combination. Before I dive into the sample I […]
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For my follow-up F# post I wanted to find something that showed off more of the capabilities of the F# language, while remaining something worth integrating with AutoCAD. The good news (at least as far as I'm concerned 🙂 is that one of the samples that ships with F# turned out to be perfect for […]
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I couldn't resist... I just had to have a play with this technology, today. 🙂 Here are the steps to get your first (very simple) F# application working inside AutoCAD. First we need to download and install the latest F# distributable from here (at the time of writing this was the July 31 release - […]
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I've just come across the announcement for F#, and am pretty excited about it. Here's the link to Soma's blog, and here's the Microsoft Research F# site. F# is a functional programming language. Functional programming has a long association with technical computing, one of the reasons LISP was chosen as the initial programming interface for […]
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Introduction This session focuses on technologies that can be used to view and access DWF content downstream from Autodesk's design products. Yesterday's session focused on DWG – we're going to take the model containing 3D solids that we created during that session and publish it to DWF, adding custom metadata. We can then look at […]