AutoCAD
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Following on from the last post, where we saw an outline for this series of posts on AutoCAD I/O, today's post adds a command to our jigsaw application that creates the geometry for a jigsaw puzzle of a specified size and with a specified number of pieces. As jigsaw puzzle pieces are largely quite square, […]
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A reminder that proposals are open for AU2015 until May 26th. I've just submitted two, myself. Of the three topics I had in mind – relating to VR, AutoCAD I/O and TypeScript – I decided to submit proposals on the first two: I'll do my best to use TypeScript for one or both of the […]
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Our old friend Roland Feletic emailed me last week. He'd been having some trouble with this previous post when jigging blocks with multiline attributes. Roland had also identified some code in this post on another blog which worked properly for him. I spent some time looking into what was wrong with the original post. It […]
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From my cubicle in the depths of the Death Star… To celebrate this Star Wars Day, why not build your own Death Star using AutoCAD and 123D Make, or script the opening crawl inside AutoCAD using F#? May the 4th be with you, always.
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After seeing some code to create basic jigsaws in AutoCAD – and then a quick look at fabricating them using a laser cutter – in today's post we're adding a "wiggle" factor, making the shape of the tabs more unique than in the prior version of the application. This has been integrated into the existing […]
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After introducing a rudimentary program to help build jigsaw puzzles, we needed to fabricate the design in some way. As mentioned originally, we quickly discarded the idea to 3D print it as too time-consuming and unreliable: we decided to at least investigate using a laser cutter, what I considered to be a more natural choice […]
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Autodesk is running a series of "Answer Days", where you can get answers to your product questions directly – and hopefully in real-time – from Autodesk's development and support teams. The first is for AutoCAD and will run from 6am and 6pm Pacific. It's not just about the product, either. The ADN team will also […]
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Too. Much. Fun. As mentioned in the last post, a colleague came to me with a problem… for an internal team-building exercise, he needed to manufacture a circular, 60-piece jigsaw puzzle with 6 groups of 10 pieces, each of which should be roughly the same size. The pieces will also have some text engraved on […]
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In the last post we looked at some simple JavaScript code to automate AutoCAD's UI Finder, locating a sequence of commands in the ribbon. In this post we're going to look at how to generate a more extensive list directly from AutoCAD's documentation. The first step I took was to download and install the offline […]
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On my flight back from Singapore I started thinking about how an app might help people discover what's new in the AutoCAD UI from release to release. This might also work for custom functionality, but that's not (currently) my main concern. I was thinking of displaying some kind of palette that cycles through the new […]