AutoCAD
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This post looks at the basic steps required to prepare your application to work with AutoCAD 2010. I've copied the information from the recently-published Platform Technologies Customization Newsletter, a quarterly newsletter available to ADN members. A big thank you to Stephen Preston, Fenton Webb and Gopinath Taget for putting the material together. AutoCAD 2010 software […]
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My sister sent this one through to me, and I think it's just great: a font with holes in, allowing you to save up to 20% on ink and therefore reduce your impact on the environment. Here's what the font looks like inside AutoCAD, to give you an idea: I don't think the eco-innovators have […]
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As promised in the last post, we're now going to look at how to change the code to make the colour averaging routine work in parallel. The overall performance is marginally better on my dual-core machine, but I fully expect it to get quicker and quicker as the number of cores multiply. To start with, […]
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A friend and esteemed colleague asked - very validly - why I decided to use circles on a grid to display the results of a mathematical function in this last post, rather than using a linear object of some kind. Well I did, in fact, have a plan in mind... 🙂 This post extends the […]
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Well, I couldn't resist... as I mentioned in the last post - where we looked at creating a simple graph inside AutoCAD as an example of modifying objects inside nested transactions - the idea of graphing inside AutoCAD is a good fit for F#. This is for a number of reasons: F# is very mathematical […]
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I received this question by email last week: Is it ever required to use more than one transaction per program? The simple answer is that you mostly only need one transaction active per command: you shouldn't leave a transaction active outside of a command, as this is likely to cause problems at some point, and […]
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This post follows on from this previous one, where we looked at a technique for picking a face on an AutoCAD solid. Tony Tanzillo kindly pointed out this much cleaner solution for this problem, and also highlighted a really simple (and elegant) way to implement LookAt using standard AutoCAD commands. While I really like both […]
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This post has come out of an interesting discussion I had with Jim Cameron at the ADN party at AU 2008. He mentioned an idea, which he kindly later reminded me of by email, which was to develop an AutoCAD equivalent for Inventor's LookAt functionality. I didn't know about LookAt before this discussion, but it […]
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In this previous post we saw some code to create a table style and apply it to a new table inside an AutoCAD drawing. While responding to a comment on the post, I realised that the table didn't display properly using my example: the first column heading was being taken as the table title and […]
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For those of you who were unable to attend various Developer Track sessions at this year's Autodesk University (or would just like a refresher for sessions you found useful), my team is beavering away at recording our various AU sessions as DevTV episodes. As a quick taste of how they'll (most likely) look, here's the […]