AutoCAD
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As many of you will know, by now, I'm a big fan of Reflector. I've used it for quite some time, since its early days as a piece of freeware developed by Lutz Roeder, and overall it's proven to be an extremely valuable tool. When a UK-based company, Red Gate Software, acquired the Reflector technology […]
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Thanks to Stephen Preston from DevTech Americas for the code that originally inspired this post. A nice little one to start the week. We're going to ask the user to select a bunch of lines and we'll then go through and edit each one, extending it in both directions by a quarter of its original […]
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As a comment on this previous post, MikeR posted this request: Hi Kean, I'm the one that instigated this original question about group filters. That part is working fine and I can also set the active group filter in the file. Now I need to make parent & child filters. How can I add child […]
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This is a really fun one: a new technology preview on Autodesk Labs that integrates powerful sketching – such as that available in SketchBook Pro and SketchBook Mobile (both of which I've played around with, at one point or another) – into AutoCAD 2010. Now it's not immediately apparent what the benefits are for having […]
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In the last post we looked at some code to define a block and insert it into the model-space of an AutoCAD drawing. Today we're going to look at creating a group. Before we dive into the code, it's worth taking a quick look at the difference between a block and a group, to understand […]
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This post – and its sister post, which will cover creating a group – are further topics I would expect to have already covered in this blog at some point, or perhaps to see covered by the AutoCAD .NET Developer's Guide (and I'm sure they will be in a future incarnation of it). So thanks […]
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Back in this previous post we looked at some code to sweep an AutoCAD surface using .NET. As I mentioned in a later update, it's possible to also sweep an AutoCAD solid using .NET (since AutoCAD 2010: prior to that one had to use ObjectARX). I've just received a comment asking me to show how […]
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Sometimes I receive a question which makes me think "I must have posted something that shows that by now, surely?" and yet I can't find it. So please accept my apologies if this post is redundant and I'm just repeating myself. 🙂 Here's the question that had me thinking: I don't know how may I […]
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Firstly, a slightly belated "Happy New Year!" to all of you. I'm now easing back into the saddle after three very relaxing weeks off with family and friends. One of the first activities I had on my plate in 2010 was to tidy up the application I presented in this previous post and turn it […]
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We have a number of candidate "Plugins of the Month" currently in the pipeline – including Inventor versions of Screenshot and Clipboard Manager as well as a tool to streamline batch plotting from AutoCAD – but unfortunately none were looking ready enough to count on for January's posting. So yesterday I dipped into the plugins […]