AutoCAD
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I recently stumbled across this post which inspired me to do something similar in AutoCAD (the fact that both posts cover Fibonacci spirals and use F# is about where the similarity ends - they do things quite differently). Fibonacci spirals are an approximation of the golden spiral, which for old timers out there will be […]
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Back at the beginning of the year I launched a programming contest for using F# with Autodesk products. A few months ago I introduced one of the winning entries showing how to use F# to implement Overrules in AutoCAD 2010. Now I've finally got around to unveiling the second winning entry. And the winner is… […]
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Fenton Webb, from DevTech Americas, is presenting two sessions on using WPF in your AutoCAD .NET applications. These will be of particular interest to developers wanting to take their ribbon interfaces to the next level in AutoCAD 2010, but will be of relevance to anyone wanting to understand more about WPF and how it can […]
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Here's a question I received recently by email: How do you set up a .NET plugin for AutoCAD to install & demand load in the same way as ObjectARX plugins? The documentation is not very clear at making the distinctions visible. In ARX terms, we currently write a set of registry entries as part of […]
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Just a quick reminder about the DevLabs my team is running, the first of which is being held next week in our UK office. Here's some additional information that was sent out in a recent technical newsletter for ADN members: If you don't have time to attend a training class, but you value the opportunity […]
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Thanks to all of your interest in this recent post, which looked at a way to interface an out-of-process .NET application with an assembly running in-process to AutoCAD. After some obvious functionality gaps were raised, Renze de Waal, one of our ADN members, pointed out a DevNote on the ADN website covering – and more […]
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This question came in recently by email from Michael Fichter of Superstructures Engineers and Architects: Could you suggest an approach that would enable me to drive a .NET function (via COM) that could return a value from .NET back to COM? I have used SendCommand in certain instances where return values were not needed. Michael's […]
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This post extends the last one which looked at a basic implementation to allow AutoCAD's standard OFFSET command to work on the contents of external references. I haven't flagged the specific changes, but the old code (which is almost identical to that in the last post) starts with the Initialize() function. The previous example created […]
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This was a fun little project: to enable AutoCAD's OFFSET command to work on the contents of external references (xrefs), something I'm told is a long-standing end-user wishlist request. AutoCAD's .NET API provides some very interesting events that make this possible without the need for us to implement our own OFFSET command. We can simply […]
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I might also have called this post "Overruling AutoCAD 2010's entity display and explode using Boo", as it complements the equivalent posts for C#, F#, IronPython and IronRuby, but I felt it appropriate to combine the post with an introduction to what Boo is all about. What is Boo and how did I come to […]