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I might also have called this post "Overruling AutoCAD 2010's entity display and explode using Boo", as it complements the equivalent posts for C#, F#, IronPython and IronRuby, but I felt it appropriate to combine the post with an introduction to what Boo is all about. What is Boo and how did I come to […]
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I've been meaning to get to this one for a while. This post takes the OPM .NET implementation and shows how to use it to allow modification of data persisted with an object: in this case we're going to use the XData in which we store the "pipe radius" for the AutoCAD 2010 overrule sample […]
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It's quite common for AutoCAD developers to use Extended Entity Data (XData) to tag objects their application cares about. This is certainly the approach taken in the recent series showing how to overrule the graphics display for an object – we store a "pipe radius" in XData attached to the Line or Circle we want […]
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I am really starting to love the new Overrule API in AutoCAD 2010, and I still feel as though I'm just scratching the surface. This question came in overnight from Danny Polkinhorn (thanks, Danny! 🙂 : It's exciting to see a very usable implementation of 'custom' objects in .NET. Obviously, this implementation protects what could […]
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In the last post we looked at some code that attaches additional data to individual entities, allowing them to be drawn independently with different visual properties via the new Overrule API in AutoCAD 2010. A couple of comments – one from Qun, who provided the original F# sample, and one from Tony Tanzillo – have […]
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In the last post we looked at some C# code to customize the display of all Lines and Circles within AutoCAD, adding a thickness (or a diameter) to make them look more like pipes. This was, in turn, based on this F# post. The previous code implemented an overrule that allowed us to insert our […]
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The code in this post is a direct port of the F# code in this previous post, which was entered by Qun Lu in the recent F# programming contest. Someone – very validly - commented on the fact the post involved both a new language and a new API, which was probably pushing things a little from […]
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This is the first post in a series looking at the new APIs in AutoCAD 2010, and follows on from this post looking at the migration steps required. I've copied the information in this post from the recently-published Platform Technologies Customization Newsletter, a quarterly newsletter available to ADN members. A big thank you to Stephen […]
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This post extends the approach shown in this previous post to implement a realistic editing and storage mechanism for application settings. It uses the .NET PropertyGrid control to display a custom class, allowing editing of a number of properties. This class is also serializable, which means we can use the .NET Framework to save it […]
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A big thanks to Viru Aithal, from our DevTech India team, for providing the code that inspired this post. Update: it turns out I didn't look deeply enough into the origins of the code behind this post. The code that inspired Viru's code that inspired mine came from our old friend Mike Tuersley, who's delivering […]