AutoCAD
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In this previous post we introduced a technique for automatically translating AutoCAD's tooltips into one of 35 different languages via an online translation service. To improve the process at various levels – rendering it more efficient and enabling the possibility of local editing and crowdsourced localization – this post introduces caching of the translation results […]
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I'll be delivering a Facecast on AutoCAD Customization next Tuesday, July 19th 2011 at 5pm CET / 8am PST. If you'd like to attend, please RSVP via this Facebook page. The timing on the page seems to be for 3 hours, but I've been told the session will last around 30 minutes. I'll embed a […]
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One of the great benefits I have from working in our Neuchâtel office is my proximity to a great many talented members of Autodesk's Worldwide Localization team, who are responsible for translating most of our products into various languages. Over the last few months, I've been working even more closely than usual with that team, […]
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To continue on the theme established in the last post, today we're going to go ahead and modify AutoCAD tooltips, prefixing them with a fixed string. This is the next step on the path to modifying them in a more meaningful way (to translate them into a different language, for instance). Here's some C# code […]
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I'm working on an internal project that seems to be worth sharing externally. I'm looking at the potential for run-time modification (thinking mainly about translation) of tooltips displayed by AutoCAD. The first step towards realising this is clearly to determine when tooltips are going to be displayed and to establish the content of these tooltips. […]
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Today's post contains some fun code contributed by Stephen Preston which re-creates the Minesweeper video game inside AutoCAD. Stephen tells me it needs a bit of polishing, but the game is certainly playable. I've reformatted some of Stephen's code to fit this blog. The implementation comprises two main files, which you can name as you […]
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Better information when debugging .NET and ObjectARX applications has been a long-standing request from our developer community. I'm happy to say that this week we've posted a set of public debugging symbols (in the form of stripped PDB files) to our new corporate symbol server, http://symbols.autodesk.com/symbols. For now' we've posted the 32- and 64-bit PDBs […]
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I've been planning to look at it for ages – and have certainly mentioned it before – but other things have kept on cropping up. Well last Thursday, on my train trip back from Wallisellen (the home of Microsoft Switzerland), I finally managed to take the plunge and start working with the Async CTP for […]
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Another Friday, another installment of Wayne Brill's AutoCAD .NET training DevTV series (to complement those sessions from previous weeks). Today's session is focused user-interface elements such as the .NET attributes for exposing commands and optimizing loading, adding your own tab to the options dialog and implementing drag & drop. This series of DevTV sessions is […]
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As a follow-up to their session on the Autoloader, AutoCAD 2012's simplified deployment mechanism, Stephen and Fenton have recorded another DevCast focused on creating an installer to deploy apps via the Autoloader. These two DevCasts are likely to be of relevance to anyone wishing to deploy their plugin via the "Apps" tab in Autodesk Exchange. […]