Custom objects
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Another big thank you to Jeremy Tammik, from our DevTech team in Europe, for providing this elegant sample. This is another one Jeremy presented at the recent advanced custom entity workshop in Prague. I have added some initial commentary as well as some steps to see the code working. Jeremy also provided the code for the last post. We sometimes want to stop entities from being modified in certain ways, and there are a few different approaches possible, for instance: at the simplest - and least granular - level, we can place entities on locked layers or veto certain commands…
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The code in the following two posts was provided by Jeremy Tammik, from our DevTech team in Europe, who presented it at an advanced custom entity workshop he delivered recently in Prague to rave reviews. I've formatted the code to fit the blog and added some commentary plus steps to see it working. Thank you, Jeremy! Those of you who are familiar with the workings of AutoCAD Architecture - and especially the Object Modeling Framework - will know of the very cool ability for entities to be anchored to one another. This works because graphical ACA classes derive from a…
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One of the services ADN provides its members is representation of their wishes with Autodesk's Engineering teams, helping influence product direction. For instance, each year we run an API wishlist survey for a number of our products (this year it was AutoCAD, ADT, Revit, Inventor, and Map 3D). An online survey for each product gets filled out by ADN members, allowing them to provide targeted feedback that goes straight to the appropriate Product Management contacts. I wanted to talk about an item that has featured highly in recent AutoCAD API surveys – the exposure of custom objects through .NET. The…