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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 - […]
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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 […]
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Following on from this recent post – and inspired by a question we received recently from a developer – I decided to extend the previous code to allow a user to select a portion of a drawing they would like to save to a file or place on the clipboard. This is actually a really […]
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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 […]
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One of the responses to my last post on the "Plugin of the Month" asked about showing information on an AutoCAD drawing object via a tooltip. Other than using the standard rollover tooltip properties mechanism, as shown in this previous post, the best way to achieve this is via a PointMonitor. In the below C# […]
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This was a fun little project: to enable AutoCAD's OFFSET command to work on the contents of external references (xrefs), something I'm told is a long-standing end-user wishlist request. AutoCAD's .NET API provides some very interesting events that make this possible without the need for us to implement our own OFFSET command. We can simply […]
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This post follows on from this previous one, where we looked at a technique for picking a face on an AutoCAD solid. Tony Tanzillo kindly pointed out this much cleaner solution for this problem, and also highlighted a really simple (and elegant) way to implement LookAt using standard AutoCAD commands. While I really like both […]
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This post has come out of an interesting discussion I had with Jim Cameron at the ADN party at AU 2008. He mentioned an idea, which he kindly later reminded me of by email, which was to develop an AutoCAD equivalent for Inventor's LookAt functionality. I didn't know about LookAt before this discussion, but it […]