AutoCAD
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A few people expressed an interest in understanding how AutoCAD 2015's ability to open HTML pages inside its frame – shown in this recent post – could be extended to work with "native" user interfaces. This post shows how that can be done using WPF – the other supported mechanism for adding new documents to […]
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I have to say that I'm having an absolute blast getting to know the new API features in AutoCAD 2015. It turns out I'd barely scratched the surface with my original post about the impact for developers. It's a release that just keeps on giving. 🙂 One new feature that I've had a lot of fun […]
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Many thanks to Holger Rasch who worked out how to fix the code in this previous post. It really doesn't matter that 3 years have passed, Holger – I have no doubt people will greatly appreciate the fact the code can now run without causing the annoying display issues it produced previously. Holger made a […]
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This was a fun one. It was really only a single line of code but I decided to embellish it a bit to make it a bit more useful. The "task" I set myself was to open a web-page – this blog, in fact – inside AutoCAD as an MDI child. AutoCAD can now host […]
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In yesterday's post, we looked at a mechanism that has been introduced in AutoCAD 2015 to simplify associating custom data with a Document. In today's post we're going to swap out the custom manager class to make use of the standard UserData mechanism, showing how the PerDocumentClass attribute and the UserData property are actually highly […]
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I almost named this post to make it clear it's about a new API capability in AutoCAD 2015, but then I wouldn't have had the slightly perverse satisfaction of resurrecting a series of posts after 7.5 years. Here are the first parts in this series, in case you've forgotten them (and you'd be forgiven for […]
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I had an email from Martin Duke about this old post a couple of weeks ago. I started to update the original post but then realised that a) I couldn't easily go that far back using Windows Live Writer and the built-in Typepad editor often messes up code in old posts when I edit them […]
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The "call for proposals" for AU2014 is going out on April 23rd and will remain open for about a month. This is approaching quickly, so get your thinking hats on if you're considering submitting a class proposal. From my side I'm thinking about a few possible topics: Implementing a tangible user interface for AutoCAD using […]
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We first introduced a JavaScript API into AutoCAD as a "preview" in the 2014 release. Take a look at this post for more details on this implementation. In the 2015 release the API has matured in a number of key ways, making it really ready for primetime usage. Firstly it's been made much more robust: […]
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After a little fun last Tuesday around a pink theme for AutoCAD – for which I got at least a few "we should totally do that"s from internal folk in response, so watch this space 😉 – today we're going to talk more seriously about what's needed to support the dark theme in your applications. […]