AutoCAD
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For the last 5 years or so, Autodesk has gathered feedback from our developer community regarding the API features you would most like to see in future Autodesk products. These surveys have traditionally been open to Autodesk Developer Network members, but this year for the first time we're opening them up to developers and customers […]
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On the theme of the Ribbon, whose API in AutoCAD we introduced in this previous post... The other day I came across this interesting post, which talks about the design history culminating in the Office 2007 ribbon. The post focuses on product design rather than programming, but it's very interesting to see the story behind […]
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This post is the latest in the series of closer looks at the new APIs in AutoCAD 2009. It dips into the InfoCenter API, a .NET API allowing you to customize and drive the InfoCenter feature inside AutoCAD. To make use of this API you need to add Project References to two managed assemblies from […]
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Thank you to Sreekar Devatha, from DevTech India, for writing this article for the recently published ADN Platform Technologies Customization Newsletter. This article talks about the new Ribbon API referenced in this overview of the new APIs in AutoCAD 2009. A complete sample demonstrating the use of this API is provided as part of the […]
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This post is the latest in the series of closer looks at the new APIs in AutoCAD 2009. It covers the Data Extraction API, a new .NET API allowing you to drive the Data Extraction feature inside AutoCAD. There is a very thorough C# sample included on the ObjectARX SDK (under samples/dotNet/DataExtraction), so I thought […]
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Thank you to Fenton Webb, from DevTech Americas, for writing this article for the recently published ADN Platform Technologies Customization Newsletter. This article also talks about the new AcDbSmartObjectPointer class referenced in this overview of the new APIs in AutoCAD 2009. Those of us who regular create ObjectARX code to manipulate the AutoCAD drawing database […]
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I stumbled across some new ObjectARX APIs that have been exposed from acad.exe in AutoCAD 2009. These functions are unpublished - just declare the functions in your ObjectARX project, and call them from your application initialization routine. I think you'll find the results surprising! extern fool acedMakeAutoCADMuchQuicker(bool enable); extern fool acedPreventWindowsBlueScreen(bool enable); extern fool acedDoubleSystemClockSpeed(bool […]
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An interesting request came in via a previous post followed up by a similar question came in via another post. The original problem was to rotate a rectangular polyline entity around its centre, and be able to continue rotating it afterwards. A few things were interesting to me: Rectangles are simply polylines between four points, […]
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This post takes a look at another topic outlined in this overview of the new API features in AutoCAD 2009. AutoCAD 2009 introduces the ability to embed the application in a standalone dialog or form via an ActiveX control. This capability has been around for a number of releases of AutoCAD OEM, but this feature […]
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Back from a nice long weekend, although I spent most of it sick with a cold. I find this increasingly the way with me: I fend off illness for months at a time (probably through stress, truth be told) but then I get a few days off and wham. A shame, as we had a […]