User interface
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This post is based on some information provided by Peter Muigg, a developer in Germany Austria who has long been a friend of Autodesk. In fact, if memory serves me well – and do step in if I'm mis-remembering, Peter – back in 1995 when I first joined the company, Peter delivered German-language ObjectARX training […]
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This was a fun question that came in from James Meading. I genuinely didn't think I'd manage to look into it before the break, but it tweaked my interest during my trip back from the UK: I thought this might be a topic you would be interested in. I do not use ctrl-v for pasting […]
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This is a really interesting topic. At least I think it is – hopefully at least some of you will agree. 🙂 The requirement was to create selectable – or at least manipulatable – transient graphics inside AutoCAD's drawing canvas. As many of you are probably aware, transient graphics are not hooked into AutoCAD's selection […]
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After the first three parts of this series covered the basic jig that makes use of the standard keywords mechanism to adjust text's style and rotation as it's being placed, it eventually made sense to implement the remaining requirement initially provided for the jig: this post looks at different approaches for having the jig respond […]
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Back in March, I received an email from Thomas Fitou suggesting an interesting blog topic: I was thinking about a cool feature in jigs: You invoke a command to enter an Mtext or text The editor is asking for some text You enter the text Then a jig is dragged asking for position But in […]
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After looking at how the Bindable Object Layer (BOL) in AutoCAD might be used to get information about the current drawing, in today's post we're going to see how it can also be used to manipulate that data (in a fairly limited, albeit useful, way). But first, let's talk a bit about the origins of […]
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Some time ago, I posted code that used the Autodesk.AutoCAD.Windows.Data namespace to list the hatch patterns in the current drawing. Fenton Webb posted a follow-up on the AutoCAD DevBlog that took this further, extracting additional data from AutoCAD and using it to populate an Excel spreadsheet. Within that post, Fenton showed the technique required to […]
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I visited another Windows 8-related conference in Zürich, yesterday. Despite much of the content being repeated from the last one I attended, I actually found it really useful: having spent time working with Windows 8 and WinRT over the last few weeks, I found I got more out of the demos and could also ask […]
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This post was inspired by an email I saw from Philippe Leefsma, from DevTech EMEA, which made use of the Autodesk.AutoCAD.Windows.Data namespace – something I didn't even know existed. The specific example Philippe showed was how to access the list of hatch patterns available in the current drawing without iterating through the relevant dictionary in […]
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Thanks to Matt Stein, Senior User Experience Manager in the AutoCAD team, for giving me permission to publish the following information. In this previous post, we can see how it's possible to display our own contextual ribbon tabs inside AutoCAD during custom operations. To help make applications consistent with AutoCAD, here are some guidelines around […]