November 19, 2009: Preview of December’s Plugin of the Month: Layer Reporter
Comments: 1 | Categories: AutoCAD , AutoCAD .NET , Drawing structure , Plugin of the Month , User interface
I feel like I’m posting a lot about our Plugin of the Month initiative, at the moment, but then I suppose it’s to some degree a function of what I’m spending time on. It’s definitely eating into the time I...

November 16, 2009: Updated version of Screenshot now available
Comments: 2 | Categories: AutoCAD , AutoCAD .NET , Graphics system , Plugin of the Month , Runtime , Selection
We’ve had a few reports of issues with the Screenshot “Plugin of the Month”. They fall into two main categories: Attempting to NETLOAD the application DLL from a network share Within the ReadMe for each of the plugins we’ve documented...

November 11, 2009: Turing test for live bank chat (failed)
Comments: 5 | Categories: Personal
Important note: If you’re only interested in programming-related posts (rather than those related to interpersonal or possibly human-computer interaction) please stop reading. I lived in the US between 2000 and 2003, and have since kept a bank account there which...

November 10, 2009: November’s Plugin of the Month: Screenshot
Comments: 2 | Categories: AutoCAD , AutoCAD .NET , Graphics system , Plugin of the Month , Selection
Given the previous posts on this topic, I’d hope it’s no great surprise to regular readers that this month’s “Plugin of the Month” consists of a tool to simplify the capturing of screenshots within AutoCAD. This month’s tool allows you...

November 9, 2009: Shaan by name, shorn by nature
Comments: 0 | Categories: AU
OK, I suppose the title only really works if you have a British accent and mispronounce Mr. Hurley’s name, but anyway. :-) For those of you heading to AU, you may be interested in a rather fun offer being made...

November 5, 2009: Detecting the use of the shift and control keys during an AutoCAD jig using .NET
Comments: 6 | Categories: AutoCAD , AutoCAD .NET , Jigs , Selection
Another interesting little problem, that of how to detect the use of modifier keys during a jig operation (to indicate different jig behaviour). In this case the specific task was to detect the use of the Control and Shift keys,...

November 4, 2009: AU 2009 classes, both physical and virtual
Comments: 0 | Categories: AU , AutoCAD , AutoCAD .NET , Training , Visual Basic & VBA
As mentioned in this previous post, at this year’s Autodesk University the “Developer Track” has rightly been combined with the “Customization & Programming” track (it made sense to rationalise these two tracks which had a very similar style of class)....

November 2, 2009: Turning AutoCAD into a Spirograph using F#
Comments: 2 | Categories: AutoCAD , AutoCAD .NET , F# , Geometry
I’ve been toying for some time with the idea of writing some code to turn AutoCAD into a Spirograph, a device which I’m sure fascinated and inspired many of you as children (just as it did me). I chose to...

October 30, 2009: Streamlined QuickSaveAs command for AutoCAD 2010
Comments: 2 | Categories: AutoCAD , AutoCAD .NET , Commands , User interface
A big thanks to Tony Tanzillo for providing some tips to help improve the implementation of the application we saw in these previous posts: in particular Tony pointed out the ability of AutoCAD 2010 to generate a thumbnail image for...

October 28, 2009: Design iteration #3 of Screenshot, November’s Plugin of the Month
Comments: 3 | Categories: AutoCAD , AutoCAD .NET , Graphics system , Plugin of the Month , Selection
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...

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