AutoCAD
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After my initial fooling around with turning AutoCAD into a Spirograph using F#, I decided to come back to this and bolt a jig on the front to make the act of making these objects more visual and discoverable. The process was quite interesting – I'd created jigs from Python and Ruby, but not from […]
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I'm very pleased to announce the availability of this really interesting Plugin of the Month over on Autodesk Labs: Batch Publish for AutoCAD. Here's an excerpt from the ReadMe (which I happen to have written, but anyway): This plugin can be used with AutoCAD to simplify the process of publishing sets of drawings to DWF […]
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We've had a few reports from people implementing external .NET applications to drive AutoCAD – as shown in this previous post – experiencing intermittent failures once AutoCAD 2010 Update 1 has been applied. Here's a typical error message: It contains the text "Problem executing component: Call was rejected by callee. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010001 (RPC_E_CALL_REJECTED))" […]
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After one update to the content he originally posted, Stephen Preston has handed the reigns for this DevTV across to Augusto Gonçalves, a São Paulo-based member of our DevTech Americas team. Augusto presented his work to rave reviews at AU 2009, and has now updated the online DevTV content. I've gone ahead and updated the […]
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I received a really intriguing question by email from Dave Wolfe on Friday afternoon: Due to your post on the topic, I wanted to improve my installation method for .Net modules. While examining the topic, I ran into a few concerns that shaped my development process. The game changer is that I couldn't find a […]
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You may or may not be aware that my team, DevTech, writes and publishes DevNotes on the ADN website, answers support questions submitted by ADN members using a tool we call DevHelp Online, records DevTV sessions, participates in events known as DevLabs, talks about our upcoming products at DevDays and delivers API training. (Seems like […]
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Over the holiday season I bought myself an external 21.5" LCD multi-touch screen from Albatron. I'd been meaning to play around with multi-touch technology (on a full PC rather than a smartphone) and the arrival of Alias Sketch for AutoCAD 2010 on Autodesk Labs seemed like the perfect opportunity. AutoCAD doesn't currently have in-built multi-touch […]
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A big thank you to Jim Cameron from Dematic for providing the code for this post, and to Wayne Brill from DevTech Americas who helped him on his way via ADN support. I've made a few changes of my own to the code, but the concept is very much Jim's. Jim recently had a frustrating […]
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I received this question by email from Vito Lee: I am trying to write an event handler function in C# and can use your expertise. I am trying to display an alert box whenever a user erases a specific block in a drawing. Which event handler would be best for this situation? This one is […]
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In the first post in this series we looked at the basic (and free) capabilities of the upcoming version 6 of .NET Reflector. Today we'll look at the "Pro" capabilities, which integrate decompilation with debugging of 3rd party assemblies. To get started, we should see a new ".NET Reflector" toolbar inside our Visual Studio installation. […]