AutoCAD
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From time to time I listen to the .NET Rocks show – I don't get the chance to listen every week, but I do browse through the RSS items I get for the show episodes and find some time to put those I find of particular interest on in the background while I'm working on […]
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Thanks for Chris, Dan and Dale for pointing out the obvious issue(s) with my last post. Let's just blame it on a few holiday cobwebs needing brushing away during the first week back in the saddle. 🙂 The main issue with my previous implementation was that I'd somehow forgotten that Database.Insert() allows you to insert […]
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Important note: the code in this post – while potentially interesting, at a certain level – has been superceded by the code in the following post. Please go ahead and use that simpler, more complete implementation instead. This question came in, over the holidays, that seemed like it was worth addressing: How do I get […]
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As Scott has announced over on his blog, January's Plugin of the Month, DrawOrder By Layer, is now available on Autodesk Labs. I first posted the code for this very useful plugin back in October, and this version includes only a very minor change from that one (for performance reasons it now only works with […]
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As promised, today's post delivers a simple application that provides a user-interface for the command implemented in this previous post. I chose to implement the UI as a WPF user control which is then hosted by a standard AutoCAD palette. Aside from its core function – to allow composition of transformation matrices to be applied […]
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As promised in the last post and based on the overwhelming feedback in the one before that, today we're starting a series on how to transform AutoCAD geometry. Before developing a fancy modeless GUI to make this really easy, we need a base command that can do the hard work. What's needed from our basic […]
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I've arrived in Munich for our German DevDay + DevLab. There's lots of snow, but luckily I didn't get delayed: I was a touch paranoid after my trip to AU, and then having to fly two legs to get here. Therein lies a story: it's not usually needed to take two planes to get from […]
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One AU evening at the bar, I was chatting to a couple of developers who suggested covering some fundamental mathematics on this blog: their respective career paths had not involved any formal (or perhaps recent) studies of certain important areas of mathematics, especially related to core linear algebra concepts such as matrix multiplication. Part of […]
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As many of you may now be aware, much of the content recorded at this year's Autodesk University is now available on the AU website. You'll find the recording of my AU Virtual session, "Getting to Know the AutoCAD® Plug-ins of the Month", as well as material from the two physical sessions I presented, "Point […]
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As promised and reported on, and then announced by Scott on his blog, the QR Codes application for AutoCAD is now live on Autodesk Labs as December's Plugin of the Month. You may have seen my original implementation, but it's come a long way thanks to the efforts of Augusto Gonçalves, a member of DevTech […]