AutoCAD
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Happy New Year, everyone! As mentioned in the last post, I took a couple of weeks off over the holiday period, extending Autodesk's annual "week of rest" between Christmas and New Year to a full fortnight. This time of year clearly has religious significance for many. Some go to church, to temple or even to […]
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This is really cool. Fellow architect on the AutoCAD team, Jiri Kripac – who originally wrote AutoCAD's "AModeler" facet modeler and is the driving force behind AutoCAD's Associative Framework – has written a really interesting ObjectARX sample to perform an associative fillet between two curves. Given Jiri's background, this is as close to a canonical […]
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We've received this request a few times in recent years: .NET developers have asked to be able to add dependencies on AutoCAD's .NET reference assemblies – primarily acmgd.dll, acdbmgd.dll and accoremgd.dll – to their Visual Studio projects using the built-in package management tool, NuGet. For those of you unfamiliar with NuGet, it's well worth checking […]
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[This handout is for "SD5013 - Using SensorTag as a Low-Cost Sensor Array for AutoCAD", a 60-minute class I'll be presenting at AU 2014. Here's the sample project that accompanies this handout.] Introducing SensorTag SensorTag is a $25 device containing a number of sensors – an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetometer, a thermometer, a […]
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The C++ developers among you may remember the autoexp.dat file, which tells older versions of Visual Studio how to visualize custom C++ types during a debug session. Here's an ancient post showing how we extended it for some basic ObjectARX types and another showing how to do so via a custom plug-in. In Visual Studio […]
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It seems like I've been living in JavaScript land (and no, I deliberately didn't say "hell" – it's actually been fun 🙂 for the last few weeks, between one thing or another. But I think I've finally put the finishing touches on the last of the JavaScript API samples I've prepared for AU 2014. This […]
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This is really interesting news I've been waiting to share for a while, now. And of course it's the answer to the question I posed in my last post (this is the service the dashboard has been monitoring). Once I get back home to Switzerland I'll go through the various comments on the post and […]
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To follow on from yesterday's post, today we're going to look at two C# source files that work with the HTML page – and referenced JavaScript files – which I will leave online rather than reproducing here. As a brief reminder of the functionality – if you haven't yet watched the screencast shown last time […]
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As part of my preparations for AU, I've been extending this Three.js integration sample to make it more responsive to model changes: I went ahead and implemented event handlers in .NET – much as we saw in the last post – to send interaction information through to JavaScript so that it can update the HTML […]
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The title of this one is a little specific – the post actually deals with the scenario of passing data from .NET to an HTML-defined palette, as well as some other tips & tricks – but it's something I wanted to show. Here's the basic idea: whenever a closed curve gets added to the drawing, […]