Solid modeling
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I've been meaning to get to this one for a while. This post takes the OPM .NET implementation and shows how to use it to allow modification of data persisted with an object: in this case we're going to use the XData in which we store the "pipe radius" for the AutoCAD 2010 overrule sample […]
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It's quite common for AutoCAD developers to use Extended Entity Data (XData) to tag objects their application cares about. This is certainly the approach taken in the recent series showing how to overrule the graphics display for an object – we store a "pipe radius" in XData attached to the Line or Circle we want […]
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A huge thank you to Zeljko Gjuranic for providing this code for a guest post. The code is based on a paper of Zeljko's that was published in issue 11 of KoG magazine. The original paper is available in Croatian with an abstract in English. The code in this post asks the user to select […]
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To continue my investigations into IronPython and the fun I'm having with overrules, I decided to to port my most recent C# overrule implementation across to IronPython. I've also been trying to do the same for IronRuby, but – so far – without luck. Please refer back to one of the previous IronPython posts for […]
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I am really starting to love the new Overrule API in AutoCAD 2010, and I still feel as though I'm just scratching the surface. This question came in overnight from Danny Polkinhorn (thanks, Danny! 🙂 : It's exciting to see a very usable implementation of 'custom' objects in .NET. Obviously, this implementation protects what could […]
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In the last post we looked at some code that attaches additional data to individual entities, allowing them to be drawn independently with different visual properties via the new Overrule API in AutoCAD 2010. A couple of comments – one from Qun, who provided the original F# sample, and one from Tony Tanzillo – have […]
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In the last post we looked at some C# code to customize the display of all Lines and Circles within AutoCAD, adding a thickness (or a diameter) to make them look more like pipes. This was, in turn, based on this F# post. The previous code implemented an overrule that allowed us to insert our […]
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The code in this post is a direct port of the F# code in this previous post, which was entered by Qun Lu in the recent F# programming contest. Someone – very validly - commented on the fact the post involved both a new language and a new API, which was probably pushing things a little from […]
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In the last post I introduced a very simple "Hello World!" IronRuby application working with AutoCAD, just as I'd previously done with IronPython. My idea for this post was to take the code from my second IronPython post – which showed how to jig an AutoCAD solid from IronPython – and get it working with […]
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A big thanks to Stephen Preston, who manages DevTech Americas and coordinates our worldwide AutoCAD workgroup as well as spending time working with the AutoCAD Engineering team (phew!), for providing this sample. Stephen originally put it together for our annual Developer Days tour late last year: I took the original sample, converted it from VB.NET […]