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A big thank you to Jim Cameron from Dematic for providing the code for this post, and to Wayne Brill from DevTech Americas who helped him on his way via ADN support. I've made a few changes of my own to the code, but the concept is very much Jim's. Jim recently had a frustrating […]
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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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Some of you may remember a philosophical question I raised in a post some time ago. The overall consensus of the feedback we received was to prioritise delivering code samples (given a choice between code samples and wizard-like code-generation tools). Which we are doing, both via the ADN site and our developer blogs… but that […]
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While I was preparing this recent post I put together a simple project which registered localized names for commands, to make sure they were picked up and used to create the appropriate demand-loading Registry keys. It was a little tricky to do this from the current documentation, so thankfully I had access to this DevNote […]
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Here's a question I received recently by email: How do you set up a .NET plugin for AutoCAD to install & demand load in the same way as ObjectARX plugins? The documentation is not very clear at making the distinctions visible. In ARX terms, we currently write a set of registry entries as part of […]
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Thanks to all of your interest in this recent post, which looked at a way to interface an out-of-process .NET application with an assembly running in-process to AutoCAD. After some obvious functionality gaps were raised, Renze de Waal, one of our ADN members, pointed out a DevNote on the ADN website covering – and more […]
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This question came in recently by email from Michael Fichter of Superstructures Engineers and Architects: Could you suggest an approach that would enable me to drive a .NET function (via COM) that could return a value from .NET back to COM? I have used SendCommand in certain instances where return values were not needed. Michael's […]
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I've been meaning to play around with the Python language for some time, now, and with the recent release of IronPython 2 it seems a good time to start. Why Python? A number of people in my team – including Jeremy Tammik and the people within our Media & Entertainment workgroup who support Python's use […]
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A question came in on a previous post: Hello, I write applications for Autocad Map and Civil3d platforms, mostly with ObjectARX. I would like to do more with .NET but so far the main reason preventing this is not having the NETUNLOAD command.. With arx I can just arxunload and arxload the application for modifications […]
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The question of how to perform a "NETLOAD" programmatically has come in a few times. Well, it turns out the answer - provided by someone in our Engineering team - is refreshingly simple. The NETLOAD command actually has a bare-bones implementation: the hard work of parsing the metadata defining commands etc. is done from an […]