Plugin of the Month
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We have a number of candidate "Plugins of the Month" currently in the pipeline – including Inventor versions of Screenshot and Clipboard Manager as well as a tool to streamline batch plotting from AutoCAD – but unfortunately none were looking ready enough to count on for January's posting. So yesterday I dipped into the plugins […]
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Well, so far, so good! We had a great ADN session on Monday, before AU proper kicked off yesterday. Lots of opportunities to talk with old friends and new. It's always fun to find out what people are doing with our technology and hopefully to help address some of the snags they've hit along the […]
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A philosophical question regarding the Layer Reporter tool came up in a recent discussion with Tony Tanzillo. Tony suggested that using XML and XSLT would have been a better way to implement the tool, and in many ways I agree with him (I've been an advocate of XML for many years… during my interview to […]
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A comment on the code posted in the last post regarding the upcoming Plugin of the Month for the month of December, Layer Reporter, gave me some pause for thought. Tony Tanzillo suggested that making more complete use of the StringBuilder object – rather than direct string concatenation using "&" – would improve the performance […]
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I feel like I'm posting a lot about our Plugin of the Month initiative, at the moment, but then I suppose it's to some degree a function of what I'm spending time on. It's definitely eating into the time I would normally focus on blogging… after a number of AU-related posts coming out over the […]
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We've had a few reports of issues with the Screenshot "Plugin of the Month". They fall into two main categories: Attempting to NETLOAD the application DLL from a network share Within the ReadMe for each of the plugins we've documented that each application's DLL module should be copied to the local file system – preferably […]
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Given the previous posts on this topic, I'd hope it's no great surprise to regular readers that this month's "Plugin of the Month" consists of a tool to simplify the capturing of screenshots within AutoCAD. This month's tool allows you to capture the current document, the entire application and an area of the drawing specified by […]
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Now that I'm completely finished with my AU 2009 preparation, it's time for me to get back to the next "Plugin of the Month", given that we have just a few days left of the month of October. Here's another iteration of the application, this time implementing the following enhancements: The application now keeps the […]
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Thanks to all those who provided feedback on this recent post. I really appreciate people taking the time to provide feedback – both positive and negative – as I want to ensure this tool is used by more than just a few AutoCAD users. Today's version extends the last one to include a few more […]
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Thanks to all who provided input on this last post, where I asked for guidance on how best to design the command-line interface for the Screenshot application, the proposed Plugin of the Month for November. The current code is based largely on this previous post, but may end up being extended - in time - […]