AutoCAD
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Thanks to Philippe Leefsma, from DevTech in Europe, for the ObjectARX code that inspired this post. In AutoCAD it's possible to create non-rectangular viewports in paperspace using a variety of closed curve objects: circles, polylines (2D, 3D and lightweight), ellipses, regions, splines and faces. In this post we're going to see some code that creates […]
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I've arrived at the end of my AU+East Asia tour, having spent the last 2 weeks in Las Vegas, San Francisco, Tokyo, Seoul and now Beijing. My blog is blocked by the Great Firewall of China, so while I can post this content via Typepad I can't see the results (although I'm told I should […]
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This post was heavily inspired by the code presented by my old friend Albert Szilvasy during his excellent AU class on using .NET 4.0 with AutoCAD. Albert took a different approach to the one I've previously adopted (which turns out also to have been suggested by Albert, when I look back at my original post), […]
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I've now crossed the international date line (giving up a big portion of my weekend, but that's life) and landed in Tokyo. Tomorrow I head on to Seoul and then to Beijing for the end of the week. In many ways a change of pace from the week in Vegas, but in other ways it's […]
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A philosophical question regarding the Layer Reporter tool came up in a recent discussion with Tony Tanzillo. Tony suggested that using XML and XSLT would have been a better way to implement the tool, and in many ways I agree with him (I've been an advocate of XML for many years… during my interview to […]
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For any Autodesk Developer Network members who have not already signed up for AUv, in the upcoming edition of our DevNews newsletter you'll find a discount code allowing you to received a free Premier Pass for AU Virtual (normally worth $99). If you don't know who in your organisation receives DevNews, please send us an […]
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This is something I've been meaning to attempt for a while, and have finally been spurred to do it by next week's AU Virtual session on F#. Not that I expect to have time to present this during the session (60 minutes is already feeling way too short for the material I want to cover), […]
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A comment on the code posted in the last post regarding the upcoming Plugin of the Month for the month of December, Layer Reporter, gave me some pause for thought. Tony Tanzillo suggested that making more complete use of the StringBuilder object – rather than direct string concatenation using "&" – would improve the performance […]
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I feel like I'm posting a lot about our Plugin of the Month initiative, at the moment, but then I suppose it's to some degree a function of what I'm spending time on. It's definitely eating into the time I would normally focus on blogging… after a number of AU-related posts coming out over the […]