AutoCAD
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I've made a couple of updates to the Clipboard Manager in this latest version. Firstly I wanted to remove a peculiar situation that occurred in the previous versions when you copy something to the clipboard that isn't AutoCAD geometry: for some reason this act invalidates the ability to access data – such as the preview […]
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As mentioned previously, Viru Aithal, from DevTech India, has been working hard on a replacement for the venerable ScriptPro tool. I'm delighted to say that it's now ready, and is live on Autodesk Labs as November's Plugin of the Month. Viru took the codebase he developed for the DWF/PDF Batch Publish tool and created ScriptPro […]
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I mentioned in the last post that I was looking to optimise my approach for automatic cropping of an image. It turns out that using Bitmap.LockBits() and the corresponding UnlockBits() does indeed help, although I haven't run any actual benchmarks to measure the difference in the two approaches. The disadvantage of this approach is that […]
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I received a few comments by email and otherwise regarding the preview capability added to the Clipboard Manager Plugin of the Month in the last post. Basically it's useful, but only to a point: the bitmap created on the clipboard is the same size as AutoCAD's screen, with the copied objects in their location relative […]
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As mentioned yesterday, I went ahead and integrated previewing into the Clipboard Manager Plugin of the Month. I won't include the code directly in the post – it's fundamentally similar in nature to that posted yesterday and is, in any case, included in the project. There were a few additional tricks needed, such as modifying […]
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I've been meaning to attack this one since we first published the Clipboard Manager as a Plugin of the Month: working out how to display a preview image of the clipboard contents inside the Clipboard Manager palette. And then I happened to receive a request by email, yesterday, suggesting a couple of enhancements to the […]
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Terry Dotson has – once again – generously offered an application to be an ADN Plugin of the Month. This little tool, called DrawOrderByLayer, allows you to modify the draw-order of objects in an AutoCAD drawing according to the layer they're on. I don't expect this to go live for another month or so (I […]
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I had a very nice surprise in my inbox, this morning. Thorsten Meinecke, from GTB in Berlin, decided to convert the VB.NET code contained in the last post into an F# script and to share it with this blog's readership. Thanks, Thorsten! 🙂 One thing about it being an F# script (typically stored in a […]
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A friend in our Product Support team in Neuchâtel asked me to help develop a little application to sort drawing files on disk. He has some old Clipper scripts that he used during a previous life as a CAD Manager to sort drawing files into different folders based on their version (held in the first […]
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I just thought I'd report back on a few changes made to the BrowsePhotosynth Plugin of the Month during the course of this week. The updated version has just been announced on Scott Sheppard's blog and I thought I'd share some of the specific implementation details. The first one (in the 1.0.1 update) was a […]