Plugin of the Month
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Life seems to have shifted quite radically this week, as the summer here in Switzerland starts drawing to a close. A Sunday morning storm reset the temperature to something more autumnal (although these are looking to climb again gradually - we're not completely done with warm days here, thankfully) and all of my three children […]
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Back when we were first creating the Exchange Store, I went through the process of preparing several of our Plugins of the Month for posting to Autodesk Exchange. After a break of several months, I've now gone back and readied September's plugin (TransTips, now on Autodesk Labs) for posting, also. It seemed to make sense […]
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Regular readers of this blog may have followed the development of this plugin, but I've written this post is to announce its availability more officially (in addition to Scott's post from last week). TransTips uses the Bing Translator web service to translate tooltips into one of 36 languages on-the-fly, as they are displayed by AutoCAD, Inventor, […]
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Actually, I wish that were true. I'm planning on taking some time off in October, but that seems a long way off, at this stage. What I've actually been doing is working with some REST-based APIs: firstly, I've been finishing up work on September's Plugin of the Month, TransTips for AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, & 3ds […]
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And yes, I do mean that literally. 🙂 Since starting this blog, 5 years ago – and even more in the last 2 years, since starting to develop and edit our Plugins of the Month for Autodesk Labs – I've been checking every line of code I've written to make sure it doesn't exceed 70 […]
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Today is a holiday, here in Switzerland, and I suffered a PC failure late last week, so I'm writing this without access to my usual system resources (AutoCAD 2012 and Visual Studio 2010, for instance). Despite these minor complications, I did want to let you know about this very important announcement. The introduction of the […]
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Now it's time to shed some light on the reason for the code in the last post. I wrote it to help address a question that came in from Elson Brown via our Plugin of the Month feedback alias: I have a request for an app that will draw the smallest circle around a polyline […]
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Another month, another plugin. 🙂 As announced over on Scott's blog a few days ago, the latest Plugin of the Month is now live. It's based on the code in this previous post, the only change being how the average point gets returned to AutoCAD's command-line: we now send it as a string that gets […]
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It's time to wrap up the series on batch-reporting Registered Application IDs. For reference, here's how we got to where we are today: Implement a command to collect RegAppId information for the active document Extend this command to work on a drawing not loaded in the editor Save our RegAppId information to some persistent location […]
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Many of you will be aware of what has been referred to as the "RegAppId virus": drawings that have been unfortunately polluted with excessive Registered Application IDs – which are used by applications to attach XData to entities – have these RegAppIds brought into a main drawing when Xrefed, duplicating and duplicating IDs that were […]