AutoCAD
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To accompany the last post – which raised some questions around when and where to call Dispose() on objects created or accessed via AutoCAD's .NET API – today we're going to look at a few concrete examples. Thanks to Danny P for not only requesting some examples but also presenting some concrete areas he wasn't […]
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This is a follow-on to this previous post, prompted by a thread over on The Swamp discussing a recent blog post by Fenton Webb on the AutoCAD DevBlog. Fenton's assertion is that you really need to call Dispose() on all AutoCAD objects that you create yourself, unless they are managed by AutoCAD's transaction system (i.e. […]
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Earlier in this series, we implemented a jig to rotate, size and place text more easily in an AutoCAD drawing, which we then extended to allow adjustment of font-level properties. In this post, we're going to add some additional functionality to allow the text to be justified differently around the cursor location. It has to […]
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In the last post, we saw a simple jig implementation to position, size and rotate standard AutoCAD text. In this post, we're extending that implementation to handle font properties such as bold and italic text. At first blush, this sounds pretty straightforward – how hard can it be, right? The complexity gets introduced when we […]
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Back in March, I received an email from Thomas Fitou suggesting an interesting blog topic: I was thinking about a cool feature in jigs: You invoke a command to enter an Mtext or text The editor is asking for some text You enter the text Then a jig is dragged asking for position But in […]
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As mentioned in this previous post, I was very keen to see how AutoCAD could be used to help streamline the process of generating what I've now found out can be classified as anamorphic street art. Leon Keer had mentioned that the technique dates back to Leonardo Da Vinci and – sure enough – Wikipedia […]
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Stephen Preston recently posted on the AutoCAD DevBlog that the Autodesk Exchange store is now open – for anyone* – to submit apps for hosting by Autodesk. [* Hopefully this point is obvious: anyone can submit apps, but Autodesk clearly reserves the right to reject inappropriate submissions.] Exchange Stores are available for the following products: […]
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As I ended up not being able to post during the last week or so, I've switched to the past tense now that I'm back in Switzerland. I'll start back on more technical topics in the coming days, but as I'm still re-adjusting I may as well wrap up my holiday's travelog, first. 🙂 After […]
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In the last few posts on this topic, we saw some examples of getting information from and controlling AutoCAD via its Bindable Object Layer. In this post, we're going to look at a way to find out when changes are made to AutoCAD's layer table: when layers are added, changed or removed. There are certainly […]
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After looking at how the Bindable Object Layer (BOL) in AutoCAD might be used to get information about the current drawing, in today's post we're going to see how it can also be used to manipulate that data (in a fairly limited, albeit useful, way). But first, let's talk a bit about the origins of […]