ObjectARX
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This is a minor pet peeve of mine that I felt like sharing. Feel free to post a comment if you agree, disagree or have your own pet coding peeve to share with other readers of this blog. I quite often see .NET code that tests for the value of a Boolean to see whether […]
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This is a really fun one: a new technology preview on Autodesk Labs that integrates powerful sketching – such as that available in SketchBook Pro and SketchBook Mobile (both of which I've played around with, at one point or another) – into AutoCAD 2010. Now it's not immediately apparent what the benefits are for having […]
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Next week Fenton Webb, from DevTech Americas, will be presenting a free webcast on the 3D capabilities of AutoCAD's APIs. Here's Fenton's synopsis: "If your product has always been 2D and you are now considering moving to 3D or if you are simply interested in finding out about the different API's that are available to […]
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It's that time of year again (it's actually a little later than when we published these surveys last year, but still). The following "Summer 2009" API wishlist surveys are now ready: AutoCAD® AutoCAD® Civil 3D® Revit® Autodesk® Inventor® Please do take the time to fill out the surveys for the products you customize or develop […]
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Sorry if the title is a little abrupt, but it seemed too good an opportunity to show off my now appalling poetry skills. [Something almost no-one knows (well, OK, knew) about me is that, at the age of 8, I was the youngest winner of a poetry competition. I went along to the King's Lynn […]
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In the last post we looked at the code behind an ObjectARX module exposing AutoCAD's Properties Palette for use from managed .NET languages. Thanks again to Cyrille Fauvel for providing this implementation. In this post we're going to move right onto using this implementation from C#. First things first: if you didn't understand much of […]
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A huge thanks to Cyrille Fauvel, who manages DevTech's Media & Entertainment team but still finds the time to dip into the odd deeply-technical, AutoCAD-related issue. Cyrille provided the original article on this topic late last year, but it's taken me time to get around to editing and publishing it. A quick tip... if you're […]
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As many of you are probably aware, my team (DevTech) is involved in a number of activities around the APIs to Autodesk products: we talk about them at conferences and seminars (what we tend to call "evangelism"), we provide API training, support & consulting, and we also develop content to publish via blogs and the […]
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This is the second post in the series looking at the new APIs in AutoCAD 2010, and following on from this post. 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 Preston, Fenton Webb and Gopinath Taget […]
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This post looks at the basic steps required to prepare your application to work with AutoCAD 2010. I've copied the information from the recently-published Platform Technologies Customization Newsletter, a quarterly newsletter available to ADN members. A big thank you to Stephen Preston, Fenton Webb and Gopinath Taget for putting the material together. AutoCAD 2010 software […]