AutoCAD
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I received this question in a blog comment: How to determine the NurbCurve3d center between two NurbCurve3ds? I chose to interpret this in the following way: given two NurbCurve3d objects, create a NurbCurve3d that sits exactly between the two. NurbCurve3d are "AcGe" classes – which means they're non-graphical – so I've broadened the scope to […]
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The first post I had planned for this week was to announce the availability of an officially-supported tool based on the code in this blog post from late last year. The tool was posted to the Autodesk web-site late last week. Over the weekend, Jimmy Bergmark pointed out an issue with the tool that led […]
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In the last post we took a look at how we could make use of the .obj output from a ReCap Photo model of a car to perform virtual wind tunnel analysis using the standalone version of Project Falcon, a flow simulation tool currently on Autodesk Labs. This post extends (or forks) that workflow to […]
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Here's the thing. While it's nice to be able to capture interesting-looking models with Autodesk ReCap Photo, what we really want is an output format that's useable in other products. In my case, what I personally wanted to do was first hinted at in this post: display a model of the Morgan 3 Wheeler in […]
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Last week I received the following question from Adam Schilling: I have enjoyed your posts on .net programming for datalinks. I have searched high and low and haven't been able to find answers or any support to help me with a small issue. My code (much of which was based off of your posts from […]
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I've been beavering away in an attempt to streamline the AutoCAD-Leap Motion integration samples I posted last week. Here's the updated project. This latest set generally gets better results than the last ones, and the LEAPEXT command certainly feels more snappy and accurate. I'm still trying to find out why the controller occasionally stops seeing […]
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I mentioned a presentation I gave in Singapore a few weeks that talked about integrating Kinect and Leap Motion with AutoCAD. After the session I had a good conversation (in person and then by email) with Nagappan Nachiappan. Nagappan is a talented young software engineer working on AutoCAD's JavaScript API, but has a strong interest […]
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I'm currently in Boston for an internal technical summit where I'll be presenting sessions on Kinect Fusion and Leap Motion (which will the sessions I've submitted - and will hopefully get accepted - for AU 2013). I arrived a day early and rented a bicycle from the hotel, taking the opportunity to cycle through the […]
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Here's a question I received recently from Dustin Vest, who works as a PDMS administrator at Fluor: I am having a problem with Intergraph's SmartSketch dwg files it exports... I found some code on your site that got me into the blocks, but I can't seem to change the draworder of entities within the block. […]
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I'm a few days late to the party (largely because I got a little distracted), but felt it was still worth posting on this topic: we've just launched AutoCAD 360, the successor to AutoCAD WS. It's more than a straight re-branding, though: while the mobile apps for iOS and Android are updates to the existing […]