AutoCAD
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During the AutoCAD team's efforts to introduce the dark theme in the 2015 version, work was done to more easily support additional themes. A lot of work was needed to create the underlying mechanism but now it's really easy to add your own themes. To test the mechanism, the AutoCAD team has created a sample […]
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photo credit: Marcin Wichary via photopin cc As mentioned in the last post, fibers are now inactive in AutoCAD 2015 (the code paths are still there, largely for testing purposes, but should not need to be enabled for typical usage of the product). Fibers were a technology that Microsoft introduced way back when to help […]
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I've just arrived home from a 10-day trip to the Bay Area. It was a really interesting visit – as usual – but I'm happy to be home (even if I'm writing this at 3am, once again fighting jetlag). The news has started to come out about AutoCAD 2015 – much of it fed by […]
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I was happy to see Scott's announcement that a tool I'd seen demoed back at AU – and during my recent trip to Israel – has now been published to the iOS App Store (even if it's really a Labs release, at this stage). It was developed by the Applied Research group in our Tel […]
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To follow on from yesterday's post, today we're going to look at a reliable way to determine the language of the AutoCAD product hosting your .NET module. Thanks to Troy Louden for sharing this technique. Here's the C# code implementing it: using System.Globalization; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime; namespace LanguageInfo { public class Commands […]
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I'm starting to get ready for a trip to the US: I'm heading out on Monday and will be home on Thursday of the following week. While I expect I'll have time to write a few posts during the trip – thank you, jetlag! – I'm going to write a couple of very simple ones […]
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Many of you will have seen last week's announcement about the creation of the Autodesk Foundation. The foundation has been set up to formalise something that's long been part of Autodesk's culture: supporting charitable causes through direct investment, software donation and matching of employee gifts. This formalisation will also bring greater alignment around our support […]
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Augusto Gonçalves, from our ADN team in Latin America, pointed me to the fact that we're holding a Spanish-language AutoCAD .NET API training class in Lima, Peru on April 7-8, 2014 (followed by one on the Revit API on April 9). To register, please complete this survey.
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I'm still on pseudo-vacation. We really had a great week in the snow: sun during the day (everyday!) with the odd bit of fresh snow overnight on a couple of occasions. It's snowing again now, but unfortunately this time it's set to snow all the way through to the end of the day tomorrow, so […]
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I'm still mainly on holiday this week, so this is a really silly post that I don't realistically expect to be of use to anyone. But then you never know. 🙂 A colleague in Product Support asked me for a quick way to cause AutoCAD to crash, the other day. I didn't ask too much […]