AutoCAD .NET
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After our quick look at AutoCAD 2016 from a user perspective, let's now spend some time looking at the things important to developers in this latest release. Compatibility Off the bat it's worth stating that AutoCAD 2016 is a DWG compatible release: it's using the same file format as AutoCAD 2013, 2014 and 2015. It's […]
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In this post we're wrapping up this mini-series on docking, which is part of a much broader story arc around a "command-line helper" tool, of course. But then we're reaching the end of that, too, I suspect, as the app's just about done. Hopefully it's ready for posting to Autodesk Labs, at least. Last time […]
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I'm happy to say that the implementation I mentioned in the last post ended up being pretty straightforward. Which is actually great, as I have some important posts to work on for next week. 🙂 Today we're going to take a look at the next stage of the "command-line helper" implementation: basic right-click movement of […]
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During the course of this week we're going to look at extending the command-line helper sample posted last week by allowing our global keywords window to "dock" to the four corners of the drawing window as well as to remain fixed at a custom location somewhere on the screen. I use the term "dock" here […]
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Today we're going to look at the implementation talked about in the last post: we're going to see how it's possible to use the Application.PreTranslateMessage() method to hack AutoCAD's message-loop and basically convert typed keywords into global ones. This is actually pretty neat (yes, even if I do say so myself 🙂 and frankly I'm […]
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Here's a quick piece of code to finish up the week to complement what we saw earlier. The idea is that on localized AutoCAD versions this code will allow the user to enter English commands without needing the underscore prefix. The code works by detecting an "unknown" command and then attempting to execute it again […]
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After introducing this project in the last post, now it's time to share some code. The project, as it currently stands, contains three source files: the first one relates to AutoCAD – it implements the various commands we'll use to attach event handlers to tell us when to display (or hide) keywords and the other […]
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I'm up in the mountains, supposedly on vacation, but as one of our children woke up with a fever, I'm skipping the morning session on the slopes to stay home with him. Which gives me the chance to start writing up a little project I've been working on for our Localization team. Here's the idea… […]
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This week I've spent quite a bit of time looking into future API features. For one of them I needed to create a progress meter, and thought to myself "why not create one in HTML5?" And as it's nothing specific to a future product release, I decided to go ahead and post it now. For […]
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My esteemed colleagues over in the ADN team, Philippe and Balaji, have been working their magic, creating samples to show how to make use of JavaScript-based physics engines within Autodesk software. They've inspired me to have a go myself. Philippe's sample – which carried on from his preliminary research into JavaScript-based physics engines – shows […]