AutoCAD
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All last week we focused on Autodesk Exchange, looking at the steps needed for preparing, submitting and re-submitting your app for inclusion on the Apps tab. I won't dwell too much more on the topic, but did just want to give some quick, high-level tips for people thinking about posting apps for inclusion on Autodesk […]
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After posting this week on how to prepare and submit your AutoCAD application for inclusion on Autodesk Exchange, today's post is about another important topic: how to handle rejection. The initial elation of posting my app had almost worn off by the time I received this somewhat disheartening email in my inbox: Don't feel too […]
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In the last post, we saw the steps involved in preparing an AutoCAD application for posting to the Autodesk Exchange store. In this post, we'll step through the submission process. Let's start with some basics: posting to Autodesk Exchange currently happens from within the AutoCAD product, which means you'll need AutoCAD 2012 installed (and running) […]
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Back when we were first creating the Exchange Store, I went through the process of preparing several of our Plugins of the Month for posting to Autodesk Exchange. After a break of several months, I've now gone back and readied September's plugin (TransTips, now on Autodesk Labs) for posting, also. It seemed to make sense […]
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Regular readers of this blog may have followed the development of this plugin, but I've written this post is to announce its availability more officially (in addition to Scott's post from last week). TransTips uses the Bing Translator web service to translate tooltips into one of 36 languages on-the-fly, as they are displayed by AutoCAD, Inventor, […]
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Starting next week – and for 8 weeks – Wayne Brill, from DevTech Americas, will be delivering free online AutoCAD .NET training. To register – yes, for free – go to our API Training page and select "Schedule", then scroll down to "AutoCAD .NET", "English", "Webcast", "Sep 08 2011" and click "Register" at the far […]
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Ever been frustrated when scrolling up in the AutoCAD text window, only to find information from earlier in that session had disappeared? I find this when listing AutoCAD commands and system variables, in particular. The standard command-line history is 400 lines, as far as I can tell, but the good news is that there's a […]
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In the 2010 release, we introduced 2D geometric constraints to AutoCAD. The feature was implemented using AutoCAD's low-level – and very powerful – Associative Framework, which has subsequently been used to implement features such as parametric surfaces in AutoCAD 2011 (more information on that here). Our initial API implementation for creating and accessing geometric constraints […]
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Actually, I wish that were true. I'm planning on taking some time off in October, but that seems a long way off, at this stage. What I've actually been doing is working with some REST-based APIs: firstly, I've been finishing up work on September's Plugin of the Month, TransTips for AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, & 3ds […]
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Visual C# Express and Visual Basic Express can be used successfully to build .NET applications for AutoCAD: in fact many developers use these tools to do so. One long-standing issue with using these tools with AutoCAD relates to debugging: the ability to debug using an external application is not directly exposed via the user interface […]