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Well, it's finally been announced. After months (probably even more) of intense speculation, Autodesk has just announced that after a break of several (perhaps 15, depending on how you count them) releases, we're planning to deliver a version of AutoCAD that once again works natively on Mac machines. [For some history regarding the original Mac […]
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In this previous post I showed some code which uploads photos to Photofly and pulls down and imports the resultant point cloud into AutoCAD 2011. The application relies on a special executable from the Photofly team which was built from code extracted from Photo Scene Editor that uploads photos to Photofly and asks for them […]
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Thanks to Jim Quanci for helping with the title of this post. My working title was "Pulling the wings off Project Butterfly" (ouch) but that clearly wasn't going to fly (groan :-). A few weeks ago I had a long discussion with Tal Weiss, one of the co-founders of the company Autodesk recently acquired along […]
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Project Draw 0.7.6 is now available, and this release includes the ability to obtain an API key via the web. All you need to do is go to a website, log in to your Autodesk Labs account and fill out the required information: When I submitted my request I received the key back immediately, inside […]
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Just a quick post... I've been (and am still) on vacation this week (not doing anything very exciting, mostly cutting hedges and other miscellaneous garden work), but I queued up a few posts in order to keep things moving along while I was offline. One of the posts I put together was regarding the API […]
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Last week David Falck, over at the Autodesk Labs team, provided me with an API key to have a play with the API to Project Draw. This post documents what I did, and how it all worked. Note: I'm not actually doing any coding whatsoever in this post: I used the handy API test page […]
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I touched on this subject a few weeks ago in part 2 of my DWF-related AU handout, but thought I'd come back and describe in more depth some of the fun (although a more accurate word might be "difficulty" 🙂 I had solving this problem. I've been playing around with web services and XML since […]
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[This post continues from part 1 of this series. The source for the below applications is available here: DWF Toolkit application source, Design Review application source & Freewheel application source.] Mining the data with the DWF Toolkit Now we're going to look at using the DWF Toolkit – the freely available, cross platform toolkit for […]
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I decided to go ahead and put a test page together for the DWFRender Web Service. It still wasn't feasible to make it part of the blog itself, given the issues with scripting, particularly, but I've included the files here for you to download and run locally: Download freewheel_web_service_test.zip There are three web methods called […]
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Project Freewheel is a project that was recently launched via Autodesk Labs. It's a technology preview that allows you to share DWF files without the need for installing a client application that includes an ActiveX control for DWF display (such as the DWF Viewer or Design Review). There are three main features of Project Freewheel […]