RealDWG
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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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A comment on the last post made me think it's probably worth diving into LINQ a bit further, as there's clearly interest out there. Now I don't actually use LINQ very much but whenever I do I tell myself I ought to use it more – it's really very useful. A lot of LINQ is […]
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A question came up recently in an internal discussion and I thought I'd share it as it proved so illuminating. If I have an object of a type which implements IDisposable, is it good practice to explicitly dispose it (whether via the using statement or calling Dispose() explicitly)? The quick(ish) answer is: Yes it is, […]
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In addition to the existing collection of DevTV sessions, we have just posted a DevTV session on RealDWG. It is available for download (97.5 MB) or for online viewing. A big thanks to Adam Nagy from our DevTech team in Europe for delivering this informative session!
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[As mentioned in the last post, I'll be publishing chunks of the handouts for my AU classes via this blog over the coming weeks] Introduction This session focuses on downstream technologies that can be used to access DWG content outside of AutoCAD-based products. We're going to start by creating a basic model inside AutoCAD comprised […]
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This post finally takes the code last shown in this previous post, migrating it to use RealDWG to update a folder of DWGs without the need for AutoCAD to be installed on the system. A big thanks to Adam Nagy, a member of DevTech working from our Prague office, who turned around my request to […]
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In the last post we looked at some code to search the current drawing for a particular attribute and update its value. In this post - as promised - we're going to look at how to extend this application to work on a folder of drawings, updating those that contain the attribute and saving them […]
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This suggestion came up in reference to this previous post about using side databases. The request is to be able to open a number of DWG files and modify a particular attribute, saving the files back. Rather than jumping in and solving both problems in one post, we'll start today with the problem of updating […]
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This topic was briefly introduced almost a year ago, in this post. I then looked into the code a little further in a follow-up post. But at the time this topic wasn't the main thrust of the post, it was really more of an implementation detail. So now it's time to do the topic a […]
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It's been quite a week... I was attending Autodesk's annual One Team Conference in Las Vegas, and had a number of meetings before, during and afterwards (hence my inability to make any posts whatsoever since Sunday). It was hectic, but a great event - the highlight for me was the keynote address on Wednesday by […]