AutoCAD
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I'm up in the mountains for the week as the kids have their winter half-term break (which in Switzerland is actually intended for kids to ski… very civilized :-). I'm going to take a few meetings and probably write a few blog posts, but otherwise I'm planning on hitting the slopes whenever I get the […]
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To follow on from yesterday's post, today we're going to look at an alternative implementation that – rather than modifying the Edit shortcut menu that appears for all object types – adds our custom menu item to the shortcut menu associated with a specific type of object. In our case we want to associate the […]
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A big thanks to Parrish Husband for both suggesting this topic and providing the majority of the code in this post. Parrish had been attempting to extend the technique shown in this aging post to include an icon with the content menu item. At least one person had done this before, according to the blog […]
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A colleague in our Product Support team came to my desk yesterday afternoon with a problem he thought I might find interesting. He was right. 🙂 It turns out that AutoCAD tables containing Unicode characters don't export very well to CSV files (for later import into Excel, for instance). Here's a sample table with a […]
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I've pulled together a few miscellaneous updates that relate to Autodesk's Reality Computing efforts, which – as I mentioned earlier – is a term that's intended to include "Reality Capture" at the beginning, followed by "Reality Modeling and Analysis" and then "Reality Delivery". Firstly, looking at the capture side of things… Photo on ReCap 360 […]
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I wasn't planning on covering this particular topic today, but then this comment came in overnight and I ended up taking a look into it. Paul has been trying to append a specific cell range to his connection string when creating a data-link for an Excel spreadsheet, adding to the code from this previous post. […]
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To follow on from yesterday's post, today we're taking a look at a more interactive – and iterative – approach to getting the length of a pipe (defined by a surface generated from an imported SAT file, we're not talking about native Plant 3D objects). This is the second task discussed in the introductory post […]
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After introducing the series in the last post, today we're going to look at one potential approach for this problem: we will extract and create centrelines for surface objects created after an SAT from an external piping system has been imported into AutoCAD as well as providing a basic command to count their lengths. The […]
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Since publishing this recent post to simplify the process of generating centrelines for surfaces representing pipes – as imported from an external piping system that only generates SAT files – I've been thinking on and off about how best to simplify the process of measuring the lengths of these various "pipes". Greg Robinson's comment over […]
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Another interesting question came in by email, this week. Fredrik Skeppstedt, a long-time user of the TXTEXP Express Tool, wanted to perform a similar operation using C#: to explode text objects – as TXTEXP does – but then be able to manipulate the resulting geometry from .NET. TXTEXP is an interesting command: in order to […]