Plugin of the Month
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I'm currently thinking about using the code from this previous post as a basis for November's Plugin of the Month. This simple AutoCAD application would provide three main capabilities: Take a screenshot of the entire AutoCAD application window Take a screenshot of the current drawing window Take a screenshot of a user-specified section of the current drawing Each of these options would result in a bitmap being either saved to file or placed on the clipboard. The thing I'm chewing on, right now, is how best to design the command interface for these operations. It occurred to me that this…
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As Scott is leaving on a well-deserved sabbatical, he has gone ahead and posted our next Plugin of the Month a few days ahead of schedule. Here's a link to Scott's post announcing the tool. This is a very cool little application developed by Mark Dubbelaar from Australia. Mark has been drafting/designing with AutoCAD for the last 10+ years and, during this time, has used a variety of programming languages to customize AutoCAD: LISP, VBA and now VB.NET. Mark was inspired by the "clipboard ring" functionality that used to be in Microsoft Office (at least I say "used to be"…
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In response to September's Plugin of the Month - which Shaan has very kindly posted about over on Between the Lines – a few people have requested enhancements to the OffsetInXref tool. Two came up, in particular: The ability to offset the contents of blocks, not just xrefs The ability to enable the XLINE command's offset functionality to work with xrefs (and blocks) The changes to enable these enhancements are very minor, which is always a pleasant surprise. Well, in the first case it isn't much of a surprise: xrefs are actually just a special kind of block, so we…
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As announced on Scott Sheppard's blog, It's Alive in the Lab, you can now find the inaugural ADN Plugin of the Month available for download on Autodesk Labs. I introduced the concept a little over a month ago – thanks to all of you who responded! – and we've decided to get things started with OffsetInXref, an AutoCAD plugin allowing you to offset geometry contained in external references without first having to explode them. The code for this plugin can be found in these previous posts on this blog, as well as with the plugin download itself. The inspiration for…
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This is less a pre-announcement of something we're doing than it is a call for input (or perhaps a cry for help? ;-). After the summer we're expecting to launch a new section of Autodesk Labs containing a "plugin of the month, brought to you by the Autodesk Developer Network". The plugins we're providing will be simple productivity enhancing tools and utilities that streamline the use of one of our products. The drivers behind this are to a) solve customer problems and b) demonstrate the benefits of investing in software customization. All the plugins we provide – with full source…