Batch processing
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As mentioned previously, Viru Aithal, from DevTech India, has been working hard on a replacement for the venerable ScriptPro tool. I'm delighted to say that it's now ready, and is live on Autodesk Labs as November's Plugin of the Month. Viru took the codebase he developed for the DWF/PDF Batch Publish tool and created ScriptPro […]
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I had a very nice surprise in my inbox, this morning. Thorsten Meinecke, from GTB in Berlin, decided to convert the VB.NET code contained in the last post into an F# script and to share it with this blog's readership. Thanks, Thorsten! 🙂 One thing about it being an F# script (typically stored in a […]
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A friend in our Product Support team in Neuchâtel asked me to help develop a little application to sort drawing files on disk. He has some old Clipper scripts that he used during a previous life as a CAD Manager to sort drawing files into different folders based on their version (held in the first […]
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I'm very pleased to announce the availability of this really interesting Plugin of the Month over on Autodesk Labs: Batch Publish for AutoCAD. Here's an excerpt from the ReadMe (which I happen to have written, but anyway): This plugin can be used with AutoCAD to simplify the process of publishing sets of drawings to DWF […]
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In this recent post we looked at an approach combining AutoLISP with a script generated on-the-fly to get around the fact that (command "_.OPEN" …) does nothing when SDI == 0. As mentioned in a comment in the post, I realised that the approach of using a single master script to do this is more […]
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As mentioned in this previous post, there has been some discussion internally around the future of SDI. Given the change this will bring to applications, SDI is going to be around until we next deliberately choose to break binary application compatibility (something we just did with AutoCAD 2010 and typically try to do only every […]
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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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Over on Beyond the Paper, Volker Joseph has posted a DWF Toolkit console application that can be used to batch-convert between the DWF and DWFx formats.
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In the last post we looked at some code to programmatically purge Registered Application names from the drawing currently active in AutoCAD. In this post we take the "batching" code first used in this previous post and apply it to this problem. What we end up with is an additional command called PF which asks […]
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This post finally takes the code last shown in this previous post, migrating it to use RealDWG to update a folder of DWGs without the need for AutoCAD to be installed on the system. A big thanks to Adam Nagy, a member of DevTech working from our Prague office, who turned around my request to […]