AutoCAD
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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. There's also a new Developer Center focused on this very task, providing the guidelines and requirements for publishing apps along with a couple of helpful DevTV sessions to get you started.
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Today is a holiday, here in Switzerland, and I suffered a PC failure late last week, so I'm writing this without access to my usual system resources (AutoCAD 2012 and Visual Studio 2010, for instance). Despite these minor complications, I did want to let you know about this very important announcement. The introduction of the companion apps via the Autodesk Exchange Apps tab inside AutoCAD 2012 - a mechanism introducing AutoCAD's extensive customer base to the value of applications from AutoCAD developers - could well turn out to be a watershed moment in the history of AutoCAD, comparable to the…
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Another Friday, another installment of Wayne Brill's AutoCAD .NET training DevTV series (to complement those from previous weeks). Today's session is focused on the very useful InputPoint Monitor capability. This series of DevTV sessions is a companion for the new AutoCAD .NET training material available from the AutoCAD .NET Developer Center. Enjoy! 🙂
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Just a gentle reminder – for those of you who have not yet had the chance to complete them – that this year's API wishlist surveys are still open: AutoCAD® AutoCAD® Civil 3D® Revit® Autodesk Inventor® Autodesk Navisworks® To make sure we get as many responses as possible, we've extended the deadline for these surveys to June 17th, 2011. In addition to these, we've also just published API wishlist surveys for two of our Media & Entertainment products: Autodesk 3ds Studio Max® Autodesk Maya® These two surveys will be open until July 3rd, 2011. We greatly appreciate you taking the time…
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This post was queued up for Friday, but a technical issue (i.e. probably user error) prevented it from going out. So here we are on Sunday, instead, for another installment of Wayne Brill's AutoCAD .NET training DevTV series (to complement those from previous weeks). Today's session is focused on working with dictionaries and other types of container, as well as using runtime type identification and casting. This series of DevTV sessions is a companion for the new AutoCAD .NET training material available from the AutoCAD .NET Developer Center. Enjoy! 🙂
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After focusing on a manual process for sweeping a solid inside AutoCAD in this previous post, it seemed to make sense to attempt to automate more of that process. In the code in this post, we take a standard circular profile – of a user-specified radius – and sweep it along the path defined by the user's hand movements. Back in the original Kinect integration example we created a 3D polyline path linking every position of the user's hand detected by Kinect. This makes a very jittery path for our purposes, so we're going to define a spline along fit…
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Another Friday, another installment of Wayne Brill's AutoCAD .NET training DevTV series (to complement those from previous weeks). Today's session is focused on responding to database events and creating a palette-based user interface. This series of DevTV sessions is a companion for the new AutoCAD .NET training material available from the AutoCAD .NET Developer Center. Enjoy! 🙂
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It's been a while since I've talked about AutoCAD WS, even though the application is proving hugely popular on its various platforms: whether inside a web browser or on iOS and Android devices. There have been some really interesting capabilities exposed, lately, which are making it increasingly interesting to the development community. One, in particular, that I'd like to talk about today is the ability for AutoCAD WS to connect to sites supporting the WebDAV protocol. I've used WebDAV a number of times, over the years, mainly with ProjectPoint and SharePoint. It's certainly possible to set up your own WebDAV…
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Our annual API wishlist surveys are now live: AutoCAD® AutoCAD® Civil 3D® Revit® Autodesk Inventor® Autodesk Navisworks® Please do take the time to provide us with your input: it's one of the most direct ways to influence the direction of the Autodesk products you customize or for which you develop applications. Our various Engineering teams take this feedback very seriously when prioritising the APIs to expose over the coming releases of our software. And if you (optionally) provide your email address in the survey, I'll send you a copy of the results once they've been compiled. The surveys will remain…
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Another Friday, another installment of Wayne Brill's AutoCAD .NET training DevTV series (to complement those from previous weeks). Today's session is focused on the fundamentals of AutoCAD's drawing database. This series of DevTV sessions is a companion for the new AutoCAD .NET training material available from the AutoCAD .NET Developer Center. Enjoy! 🙂