Novedge Pulse™ of Kean Walmsley

After talking about the architecture of our JavaScript API in this recent post – and mentioning the approach we expect developers to take when creating geometry in one of the comments – I thought it would be worth spending the [more...]

Here’s something else that may be of interest to people. As I was working towards the solution shown in the last post – before Albert told me about the ucsToWorld() function (thanks, Albert :-) – I ended up extending the [more...]

Being here in San Rafael, it seemed like a good opportunity to put pen to paper on the internals of the JavaScript API introduced in AutoCAD 2014. It’s a topic I’ve been meaning to get to for some time, and [more...]

I’m a few days late to the party (largely because I got a little distracted), but felt it was still worth posting on this topic: we’ve just launched AutoCAD 360, the successor to AutoCAD WS. It’s more than a straight [more...]

Another great week for tech. I’m in hog heaven reading all the information being shared regarding the newly-revealed Xbox One. I’m obviously most interested in the upgrade to the Kinect technology. Here’s what I’ve gleaned, thus far: Full HD with [more...]

The ADN team has recently announced their annual API wishlist surveys for both AutoCAD and AutoCAD Civil 3D. Our Engineering teams take the results of these surveys very seriously, and greatly appreciate the time you take to provide us with [more...]

Do you make regular use of AutoCAD Architecture (ACA), AutoCAD MEP (AME) or AutoCAD Mechanical (ACM)? If so, I’d be interested in hearing from you. First, some background. Something I haven’t yet talked about on this blog is an additional [more...]

I’m at Changi airport, about to board my Swiss flight for Zurich. I had a great few days, here in Singapore, culminating in a presentation on integrating Kinect Fusion and Leap Motion with AutoCAD for members of the various engineering [more...]

I arrived yesterday morning in Singapore, coming in on a Singapore Airlines A380 from Zurich. It was a great flight, as far as long-hauls in economy go: comfortable seats with a great choice of films to watch (my favourite on [more...]

I’ve learned a few things since the last post, where we complemented AutoCAD’s new JavaScript API with some additional .NET functionality to work around an issue that existed in the code we’d developed in the previous two posts. Firstly, I [more...]

After having some fun writing our first jig inside AutoCAD, last week, and calling it either from an HTML page or an AutoCAD command defined in a .js file, in today’s post we’re going to see how we can use [more...]

Just to complement yesterday’s post showing how to define a simple jig using JavaScript, here’s the same code from a separate .js file: var doc = Acad.Application.activedocument; var center = new Acad.Point3d(0, 0, 0); var radius = 0; var trId; [more...]

I arrived back safely in Switzerland on Saturday night. It was a pretty good trip to the Bay Area, this time: most surprisingly this is the first time ever I’ve managed to sleep through until 6am (or thereabouts) on every [more...]

I’m back in San Rafael after a tiring – but very rewarding – two days down in Santa Cruz. I’ve decided to rattle out a quick post – inspired by this recent comment – before heading out for dinner, so [more...]

My flight out of Zurich was delayed slightly – for snow, of all things! – but the trip across to San Francisco was otherwise smooth enough. After spending a fun Saturday night and Sunday in the city – catching up [more...]

I’m hopping on a plane tomorrow to head across to the Bay Area for a week – I have some internal meetings to attend there. This is the first time I’m flying direct from Switzerland – Swiss now run a [more...]

Or otherwise named “Creating an AutoCAD jig to dynamically display a guilloché pattern using F#”. But then why pass up the chance for a Jerry Maguire reference? :-) Anyway, to continue on from last week’s post, Doug – who had [more...]

So that’s it, then. As mentioned some months ago, I’ve now successfully transitioned from thirtysomething to fortysomething. To celebrate the day itself, I shared a cheese fondue with family and a few friends. What was a bit different about this [more...]

Here’s a fun one to finish up the week. And no, it isn’t a belated April Fool’s gag. ;-) I should probably say right away that you won’t be printing money after reading this blog post, but you might know [more...]

As a follow-on from the last post, in today’s we’re going to look at a crude approach for collecting execution information about functions of your choosing from a .NET app inside AutoCAD. We’re going to extend the implementation shown last [more...]

Late last week I received an interesting email from Bruno Saboia, who’s been experiencing some performance issues with code he’d written to return all the objects of a particular type – in his case, Lines – from the model-space of [more...]

For those of you who may have missed it, I really like the Morgan Motor Company, and in particular the latest incarnation of their iconic Morgan 3 Wheeler. Which is why I was very happy to see it featured during [more...]

The last few Wednesday mornings I’ve swung by Place de la Gare to visit the recently-opened Fab Lab in Neuchâtel. Here’s a quick video description of what Fab Labs are about (and here’s their charter): I was new to the [more...]

I’m excited to announce some revolutionary new technology our "reality capture” team is working on at Autodesk. By now many people will be familiar with the Rip-Mod-Fab workflow (the 3D equivalent of Rip-Mix-Burn for music). The problem with this is [more...]

After introducing the new JavaScript API as one of the new features in AutoCAD 2014, in the last post we looked at a simple command defined using JavaScript. In this post, we’re going to implement a simple, palette-based UI inside [more...]

As promised in yesterday’s post, here’s my first attempt at writing a simple JavaScript app for AutoCAD. This app is purely JavaScript – no HTML to be seen, anywhere – and implements a command inside AutoCAD that will zoom to [more...]

Today is the official launch of 2014 family of products. AutoCAD 2014 will be available in the coming days to customers around the world. You’ll no doubt find lots of information on the interwebs regarding the product’s features, so I’m [more...]

In this previous post, we looked at using PointCloud Browser to visualize an AR scene containing a mesh generated by 123D Creature, a new iPad app from Autodesk. In this post, we head on over to Autodesk Labs to take [more...]

OK, here goes: my first (public) attempt at integrating the brand new Kinect Fusion functionality – made available this week in v1.7 of Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows SDK – into AutoCAD. There are still a few quirks, so I dare [more...]

This is very exciting: v1.7 of the Kinect for Windows SDK is being released today and it includes the uber-cool Kinect Fusion component. For those of you who have not yet heard of Kinect Fusion, it allows you to use [more...]

Everyone who uses AutoCAD – even if they use it exclusively in one or the other mode – knows that it’s capable of being used to generate both 2D drawings and 3D models. Not everyone realises there are actually two [more...]

A few weeks ago, we looked at using PointCloud Browser to visualize simple spherical primitives brought down from a web-service, as well as creating a simple AR game to obliterate them. Visualizing (and popping) spheres is all well and good [more...]

As predicted in the first post in this series, today’s post looks at a slightly more robust and user-friendly approach for determining the point on a surface found by firing a ray normal to a selected X,Y point in the [more...]

As I had to meet someone at Geneva airport, this morning, I decided to kill two birds with one stone and spend a few hours visiting the 83rd International Motor Show. The show opened its doors to the public, today [more...]