Saturday February 4, 2012

"AutoCAD 2011 New APIs" webcast recording

The recording of the previously announced “AutoCAD 2011 New APIs” webcast held on April 13th, 2010 is now available for download (19.8MB). We’ve also completed a much-needed restructuring of our online session information. Links to downloads of previously recorded sessions… Go to Source  Read More

Importing Photosynth point clouds into AutoCAD 2011 Part 4

In the previous posts in this series we introduced a command that downloaded and imported point clouds from Photosynth.net, we introduced a WinForms user interface on top of it and then replaced that UI with one implemented using WPF. As… Go to Source  Read More

Mays Plugin of the Month: Spiro for AutoCAD

This one is a bit of an experiment: our first “fun” Plugin of the Month (fun in that it doesn’t serve a serious work-related purpose that I can think of :-). I’ve post earlier versions of the code to this… Go to Source  Read More

.NET Reflector Pro discount

We recently made an offer available to members of the Autodesk Developer Network, to get a 10% discount on the purchase price of .NET Reflector Pro, a tool I’ve talked about a few times before. Having discussed this with Red… Go to Source  Read More

Populating a tree view inside AutoCAD with sheet set data using .NET

A big thank you to Fenton Webb, from DevTech Americas, for providing the code which was the basis for this post. Thanks, Fents! :-) Fenton sent a version of this code recently to an ADN member who was interested in… Go to Source  Read More

API wishlist surveys for Autodesk products

This year’s API wishlist surveys for the following products are now ready: AutoCAD® AutoCAD® Civil 3D® AutoCAD® Map 3D® Revit® Autodesk Inventor® Autodesk Navisworks® My team runs these surveys year on year, and year on year Autodesk’s various Engineering teams… Go to Source  Read More

More translated AutoCAD VBA to VB.NET Migration DevTVs

In this previous post I mentioned a couple of additional translations of the VBA migration DevTV that were in progress. Here is an updated list of the various ones we now have available, including links to German, Spanish and Japanese… Go to Source  Read More

Populating a tree view inside AutoCAD with sheet set data using .NET – Part 2

I didn’t realise when I created the last post (with code borrowed from Fenton) that this would become a multi-part series – otherwise I’d clearly have called the earlier post “Part 1”. :-) A comment from Harold Comerro requested information… Go to Source  Read More

Adding keyword handling to AutoCAD .NETs GetSelection()

I received this question by email over the weekend: How does the Editor-Method GetSelection works with Keywords. I can’t get it to work and there are no information found in the internet (nothing in your blog, nothing in forums). Here’s… Go to Source  Read More

AUGI CAD Camp Austin and Dallas – Top DAUG Winners

AUGI CAD Camps continue visiting cities near you. Two recent stops include Austin and Dallas, Texas. On March 16 AUGI CAD Camp rolled into the Austin Marriott North in Austin, Texas. Some of the classes offered at the Austin CAD Camp included: Secrets to an Executive CAD Manager’s Success – Instructor: Robert Green Creating Welded Designs – No Helment Required – Instructor:... Read More