AutoCAD .NET
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[This post continues from part 1 and part 2 of this series.] Building a full editing product using AutoCAD OEM Now we're going to take our AutoCAD .NET module from the beginning of the session and build a complete CAD package around it. AutoCAD OEM allows you to build a custom-branded version of AutoCAD, with […]
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[This post continues from the last post, which I've been back and modified slightly since it was posted.] Using the DWG Thumbnail in a simple application Thumbnail images, when they exist inside a drawing, live in a predictable place at the beginning of the file. This makes it possible for a module – such as […]
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[As mentioned in the last post, I'll be publishing chunks of the handouts for my AU classes via this blog over the coming weeks] Introduction This session focuses on downstream technologies that can be used to access DWG content outside of AutoCAD-based products. We're going to start by creating a basic model inside AutoCAD comprised […]
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On October 18th we're delivering a free AutoCAD development-oriented webcast entitled "AutoCAD: .NET for LISP Programmers". Check here for our overall API schedule, or go here to register directly. These sessions are typically held at the end of the working day in Europe (5pm CEST) which is the beginning of the day on the West […]
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This post extends this previous post that dealt with driving a single-sheet AutoCAD plot by adding some code to handle selection and transformation of a window to plot. First order of business was to allow the user to select the window to plot. For this I used the classic combination of Editor.GetPoint() for the first […]
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A comment came in on this previous post regarding how best to know whether a media name is valid during your plot configuration. There are a few approaches, other than the one I chose of hardcoding the device and media names. The first is to implement a user interface of some kind which allows the […]
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This was a fun one to work on. The code in this post combines and extends upon techniques shown in two earlier posts: one showing how to plot multiple sheets and the other showing how to preview a single-sheet plot. One of the key differences when plotting or previewing is that while plotting can directly […]
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This week's posts take the code I threw together last week for single-sheet and multi-sheet plotting, and introduces the concept of "plot preview". I'm learning as I go for much of this, so there are structural (although usually not functional) changes being made to the code as it develops. In this instance, for example, I've […]
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Somewhat symmetrically I'm posting this from Chicago airport, once again, but thankfully I'm now on my way home. It was a busy week of meetings, but I did get the chance to put together some code that extended the last post into the realm of multi-sheet plot jobs. The following code took some work, but […]
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I just missed my connecting flight in Chicago, so have 3 hours to pass until the next, and decided to post some code I finally got around to writing on the plane from Zurich. I've had a few requests for code showing how to plot using the .NET API in AutoCAD. There's an existing ObjectARX […]