ObjectARX
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There's a series of webinars starting next week that will help you get a grip on what's coming with various Autodesk platforms, both cloud-based and desktop. It's also a chance to catch up on some of the content that was presented at last year's DevCons. All the below webinars start at the same time: 8am […]
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Over the weekend I received an email from Jürgen Becker. It came with this image, which certainly brought back memories. The email referred to our recent trip down memory lane… I read your last post and remembered a poster. Do you remember that release, it was terrible? This is one of my favourite "chat over […]
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The AutoCAD team is running their annual survey to better understand developers' needs relating to documentation. Access the survey here before the end of May. Lee Ambrosius provides more information over on his blog, including some interesting data-points from last year's survey as well as areas of the documentation that were influenced by it.
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This series of posts is one I've been meaning to write since AutoCAD 2016 started shipping. Thankfully a number of other people have filled the void, in the meantime, so I've created an appendix of related posts that you can find at the bottom of each post in this series. The series is about how […]
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After our quick look at AutoCAD 2016 from a user perspective, let's now spend some time looking at the things important to developers in this latest release. Compatibility Off the bat it's worth stating that AutoCAD 2016 is a DWG compatible release: it's using the same file format as AutoCAD 2013, 2014 and 2015. It's […]
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This is really cool. Fellow architect on the AutoCAD team, Jiri Kripac – who originally wrote AutoCAD's "AModeler" facet modeler and is the driving force behind AutoCAD's Associative Framework – has written a really interesting ObjectARX sample to perform an associative fillet between two curves. Given Jiri's background, this is as close to a canonical […]
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The C++ developers among you may remember the autoexp.dat file, which tells older versions of Visual Studio how to visualize custom C++ types during a debug session. Here's an ancient post showing how we extended it for some basic ObjectARX types and another showing how to do so via a custom plug-in. In Visual Studio […]
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We've been getting some interesting responses back from the AutoCAD Security Survey that has been posted over on the AutoCAD Futures beta forum. (If you haven't already responded, we'd appreciate you taking the time to do so: it'll probably take you less time than reading the rest of this blog post. Then please come back […]
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photo credit: Marcin Wichary via photopin cc As mentioned in the last post, fibers are now inactive in AutoCAD 2015 (the code paths are still there, largely for testing purposes, but should not need to be enabled for typical usage of the product). Fibers were a technology that Microsoft introduced way back when to help […]
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Viru Aithal from the ADN team posted a link to this survey on the ADN DevBlog and asked that I post it here, too. The survey will help us determine your priorities for developer-oriented documentation, so we definitely appreciate the time you take to fill it out. [You might even find out about documentation resources […]