AutoCAD
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I came across this interesting question on the AutoCAD .NET forum, posted by Pete Elliott: When AutoCAD is loading, I see that my toolbars are disabled (grayed-out) until the loading has finished. Our company does some additional data loading after AutoCAD has become idle. But if the user clicks certain custom toolbar buttons while our […]
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Many, many thanks for the congratulatory messages I received after my last post, whether via this blog, Twitter, LinkedIn or email. I was genuinely overwhelmed by the response! 🙂 Here's a post I've been meaning to write for some time: a common question I've seen, over the years, is about how best to implement copy […]
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This is a topic that has been addressed a few times on this blog, whether by posts that use the 3D graphics system to capture screenshots or the series of posts regarding the Screenshot Plugin of the Month from a few years ago. I thought it worth revisiting, though, as I noticed an API that I […]
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This question came up during last week's accelerator, and is part of the reason I spent creating the last post: is it possible to selectively unlock certain layers for the duration of commands that have been specified by the user? Let's take an example: you have layers that should remain locked, apart from when using […]
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On Friday I visited Munich Airport: not only to catch a flight home to Switzerland but also to take a look at some AutoCAD issues frustrating the developers working on the airport's facilities management system. During the course of the day we were able to work through a number of problems – such as using […]
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Knowing how thoroughly I'd enjoyed my visit to JPF-DUCRET with them, our friends at hsbcad suggested I tag along to a visit they were making to the leading maker of ecological, pre-fabricated homes in Germany, Baufritz. So yesterday Peter Schlipf (from our ADN team) and I headed across to the Baufritz office in Erkheim, about […]
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It's been a hectic – but very fun – few days in Munich, working with a group of 60-70 developers from all over Europe who are getting started with Autodesk's cloud services. I'm particularly focused on those working with AutoCAD I/O, which means probably 5-6 companies in total. Here's a quick summary of some of […]
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I wasn't planning on writing another part in this series, just yet, but then I got a little carried away with some refactoring work and decided it deserved a post of its own. I wasn't fully happy with the code in the last post. The DecomposeCurve() function simply did too much: it opened a curve, […]
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After seeing how we can use Cylon.js to control Sphero's Ollie and BB-8 robots from a browser, and then using the same mechanism from inside a custom AutoCAD command, today we're going to drive these cute little bots based on AutoCAD geometry. The idea is that we'll decompose regular curves – whether lines, arcs, polylines […]
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After looking at how to control robots using Cylon.js in the last post, in this post we're going to get that working inside AutoCAD. For now with just a command that allows us to move the robots – in a future post we'll analyse geometry and use that to specify the movements. The "controller" code […]