Drawing structure
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For those who have (quite understandably) not been following the story unfolding around this tool, here's a quick timeline so far. I've largely pieced this together from emails, as I don't typically tag blog updates with a date (something it seems I ought to consider starting). 12/12/12 – In response to a request from our […]
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The first post I had planned for this week was to announce the availability of an officially-supported tool based on the code in this blog post from late last year. The tool was posted to the Autodesk web-site late last week. Over the weekend, Jimmy Bergmark pointed out an issue with the tool that led […]
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Here's a question I received recently from Dustin Vest, who works as a PDMS administrator at Fluor: I am having a problem with Intergraph's SmartSketch dwg files it exports... I found some code on your site that got me into the blocks, but I can't seem to change the draworder of entities within the block. […]
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Late last week I received an interesting email from Bruno Saboia, who's been experiencing some performance issues with code he'd written to return all the objects of a particular type – in his case, Lines – from the model-space of the active drawing. We exchanged a few emails on the topic, and Bruno kindly allowed […]
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As a follow-on from this recent post, I decided to take a stab at a more generic solution for managing XData that should remain unique – i.e. attached to a single object – inside an AutoCAD drawing. This was prompted by an internal discussion that included a long-time colleague, Randy Kintzley, who suggested the approach […]
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This question came in day or two ago: "I attach an XData to some AutoCAD entities. When the AutoCAD entity is offset by OFFSET command, the XData is cloned in the offset entity. What's the way to control(stop) the cloning of my XData in OFFSET command?" This is an interesting one. Many applications rely on […]
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I had this question come in via a blog comment. I would usually suggest asking this type of question on the relevant online forum, but something about it intrigued me: Now i would like to ask you that to post an item showing how to get the vertexs of 2d solid to create a boundary, […]
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I had an interesting question from a member of our Product Support team, last week. They've been working with a number of customers regarding large files resulting from importing DGN data into AutoCAD: it turns out that the internal structure for complex DGN linestyles created by the DGNIMPORT command – while working very well when […]
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This question came in recently by email: I have reached a snag when trying to find the boundaries of external references that have been "xclipped" by the user. Or, to be more precise, I can't even really find the data telling me whether or not the external reference has been "xclipped" at all. I'm wondering […]
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An interesting question came in via email from Rob Outman. He's interested in applying a selection filter when the user selects dynamic blocks. This is straightforward for unmodified dynamic blocks – just as with standard blocks, you can filter on the block name very easily – but it works less well on dynamic blocks whose […]