Geometry
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While developing the prototype ShapeShifter-AutoCAD integration, last week, it became clear that the user really needed something to look at as geometry was being marshalled across between the JavaScript hosting process and AutoCAD's address space. We might have used a standard progress bar, of course, but decided to do something a bit different: implement a […]
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I was up in Adelboden, this weekend, for the Men's FIS World Cup Slalom and Giant Slalom events. Yes, just watching – not participating 🙂 – although I did get the chance to catch a few much gentler slopes on my snowboard during the course of the weekend. On the Saturday – during the Giant […]
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In the last post, we introduced the idea of preventing object snapping on certain objects by tagging them with XData and then attaching an overrule within AutoCAD to stop it from getting osnap information for them. This worked very well for standard, single-object snap modes – such as center, quad, mid, end, etc. – but […]
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Here's a fun one that came up as a question during the recently "AutoCAD APIs: Meet the Experts" session at Autodesk University. I promised during the session that I'd address it in a blog post this week, so here we are. But I'm splitting the post into two parts, so the more complete solution will […]
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Over the weekend I managed to complete the BerkeleyX Foundations of Computer Graphics class. This was really an excellent class, both in terms of the structure of the lectures and the homework assignments, which actually scaled in a non-linear way (the last assignment took as much time to complete as the previous three combined). But […]
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I had a little fun with the title for this post: unfortunately this one isn't a "how to" and I'm not actually going to provide a code sample. But I did want to highlight how AutoCAD's .NET API has been used for at least one exhibit at this year's Burning Man, and a very cool […]
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I've been looking for an interesting problem to solve using MapReduce for some time now. I've been curious about the paradigm and how it can be applied to churn through large sets of data across multiple processing cores: something that's especially relevant as we need to distribute processing – whether to cores that are local […]
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I was writing up a rather lengthy post following on from Monday's when I realised I needed some diagrams. And then I realised they were going to be complicated enough to need AutoCAD to create them. And then I realised I needed to write some code to generate some of the graphics, as they were […]
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As part of the project I'm working on to deskew perspective images and insert them as RasterImage entities inside AutoCAD, I spent quite some time migrating pure Python code – a good deal of which I had to create for various assignments as part of the linear algebra class I've now finished – for it […]
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Last night I completed a really interesting lab as part of the linear algebra class that I've been studying. The purpose of the lab was to build up – and make use of – some Python code to process an image taken at a certain angle and "straighten out" the perspective of an image. The […]