Through the Interface tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-368405 2008-11-17T06:41:12+01:00 A blog for developers working with Autodesk technology. TypePad Adding custom properties to AutoCAD's rollover tooltip and its quick properties panel tag:typepad.com,2003:post-58560810 2008-11-17T06:41:12+01:00 2008-11-17T08:47:01+01:00 This topic is a little on the advanced side - it requires the use of C++ and some knowledge of COM - but I felt it was worth covering, as you can get some interesting results without a huge amount... Kean Walmsley http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2008/11/adding-custom-p.html Implementing task dialogs inside AutoCAD using .NET - Part 2 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-58121068 2008-11-14T06:10:00+01:00 2008-11-14T09:29:38+01:00 In this previous post we looked at a basic task dialog inside AutoCAD and exercised its various capabilities without showing how they might be used in a real application. This post goes beyond that to show how you might make... Kean Walmsley http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2008/11/implementing--1.html Getting Visual Studio a little more cheaply tag:typepad.com,2003:post-58445574 2008-11-13T09:28:07+01:00 2008-11-13T09:30:38+01:00 I don't normally talk about product offers, but then it occurred to me that some readers would find this promotion of interest. Microsoft is making Visual Studio 2008 available to first-time purchasers at the upgrade price, as long as they... Kean Walmsley http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2008/11/getting-visual.html A couple of interesting posts tag:typepad.com,2003:post-58350636 2008-11-11T17:39:31+01:00 2008-11-11T17:40:19+01:00 A couple of posts on other blogs that may be of interest to this blog's readership: CAB Files Present vs. CAB Files Future: over on Beyond the Paper, Volker Joseph raises the possibility of Autodesk Design Review moving from a... Kean Walmsley http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2008/11/a-couple-of-int.html Implementing task dialogs inside AutoCAD using .NET - Part 1 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-58119550 2008-11-10T06:38:00+01:00 2008-11-12T19:05:34+01:00 This is a topic I've been meaning to get to for some time... as I finally had to research it for a side project I'm working on, I decided to go ahead and post my findings here. AutoCAD 2009 makes... Kean Walmsley http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2008/11/implementing-ta.html Pitching .NET to a hardcore C++ developer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-58165512 2008-11-07T16:56:36+01:00 2008-11-07T16:59:07+01:00 This comment came in from a developer on a previous post: We still do all our stuff w/C++/STL/COM/MFC; lots of custom entities and object behavior - for Civil 3D/Land Desktop/Map -- hence, I'm not Dot Netted. The predominate explanation I've... Kean Walmsley http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2008/11/pitching-net-to.html Displaying a context menu during a custom AutoCAD command using .NET tag:typepad.com,2003:post-58004834 2008-11-05T06:52:00+01:00 2008-11-05T06:52:29+01:00 Some of you may have stumbled across these previous posts, which show how to add custom context menu items for specific object types and to the default AutoCAD context menu. There is a third way to create and display context... Kean Walmsley http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2008/11/displaying-a-co.html Creating a custom AutoCAD table style using .NET tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57768605 2008-11-03T06:56:00+01:00 2008-11-03T06:56:33+01:00 The question of how to define a new table style programmatically has come up a couple of times over the last week or so, so this post shows how to approach this. I've used the code from this previous post... Kean Walmsley http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2008/11/creating-a-cust.html Implementing a custom AutoCAD object snap mode using .NET tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57716763 2008-10-31T06:35:00+01:00 2008-10-31T07:53:36+01:00 Thanks again to Augusto Gonçalves, from our DevTech Americas team, for providing the original VB.NET code for this sample, as well as helping investigate an issue I faced during implementation. When I saw a recent reply to a developer, showing... Kean Walmsley http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2008/10/implementing-a.html A video introduction tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57599805 2008-10-29T07:03:00+01:00 2008-10-29T06:53:33+01:00 I've been meaning to do something like this for a while, ever since I bought a Flip video camera, back in July. Here's a (nearly) 10 minute segment where I talk a little bit about myself. If you found this... Kean Walmsley http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2008/10/hear-me-talk-fr.html