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area 31: March 2005

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Custom programming, design ideas and other interesting oddities for CAD programmers. Thursday, March 03, 2005. Extracting a BOM from blocks. Creating and maintaining Bill of Material lists or BOMs have always been a tedious task in AutoCAD. Many of the Autodesk vertical products (Mechanical, MDT, Inventor) have inherent tools to help but if you're stuck with vanilla AutoCAD like me, you know the pain and suffering involved in creating an accurate BOM list. Once you have the DVB extracted and loaded, open...

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area 31: Autodesk Labs

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Custom programming, design ideas and other interesting oddities for CAD programmers. Friday, September 22, 2006. Ever wondered what Autodesk is doing between releases? Check out the Autodesk Labs. Site to have a sneak peek at what might be coming in the next release. The feature recognition function looks very promising. Posted by Jim Dowthwaite : 8:37 AM. Great stuff. Keep up the good work. Http:/ autocad-articles.blogspot.com. Thanks for the kind words. Check this: www.lonelyengineer.com.

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area 31: October 2005

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Custom programming, design ideas and other interesting oddities for CAD programmers. Thursday, October 06, 2005. How to Improve Large Assembly Performance in Autodesk Inventor. I've been supporting Autodesk Inventor for a while now and about seventy percent of the support calls I receive are from users having problems with 80% resource warnings or complete system crashes while working on large or very complex models. Posted by Jim Dowthwaite : 3:23 PM 1 comments. Barrie, Ontario, Canada.

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area 31: January 2006

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Custom programming, design ideas and other interesting oddities for CAD programmers. Friday, January 13, 2006. Linking AutoCAD VBA to a VB DLL. Fortunately, we can reference a Visual Basic Dynamic Link Library (DLL) within AutoCAD VBA. Start a Visual Basic project with the ActiveX Dll template and copy the code below into the class module. Public Function HelloWorld() As Boolean. On Error GoTo ErrorHandler. VbOKOnly vbExclamation, "Hello". Show the Hello World message box. On Error GoTo ErrorHandler.

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area 31: April 2006

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Custom programming, design ideas and other interesting oddities for CAD programmers. Friday, April 07, 2006. Error 1406 During Install - A Better Solution. Autodesk has come up with a simple solution to the 1406 error that's been annoying many Autodesk customers lately. Early in the installation of Autodesk Inventor products, some customers may experience Error 1406:. This error occurs if you have Macromedia Flash Player 8a. You should uninstall Flash Player 8a. Retry installation of Autodesk Inventor.

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area 31: January 2005

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Custom programming, design ideas and other interesting oddities for CAD programmers. Thursday, January 27, 2005. Going Off on a Tangent. The AutoCAD API didn't have much to help me out so I headed to the web in search of an answer. There was one very descriptive article on how to solve this problem but the solution was written in C and was simply too complex to be ported to VB. In the end a co-worker pointed me down the right path (thanks Mike! Dim objLine As AcadLine. Dim objArc As AcadArc. Set objLine ...

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area 31: September 2006

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Custom programming, design ideas and other interesting oddities for CAD programmers. Friday, September 22, 2006. Ever wondered what Autodesk is doing between releases? Check out the Autodesk Labs. Site to have a sneak peek at what might be coming in the next release. The feature recognition function looks very promising. Posted by Jim Dowthwaite : 8:37 AM 3 comments. Barrie, Ontario, Canada. View my complete profile. The International CAD Council. Will Render for Food.

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area 31: July 2005

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Custom programming, design ideas and other interesting oddities for CAD programmers. Wednesday, July 13, 2005. Add-In Versioning In Autodesk Inventor. If you are developing an Add-In that deals with CommandBar creation or attaching buttons to a command bar listen up! The FirstTime variable will never be set to False in the ApplicationAddInServer Activate event if you compile and run your Add-In. This means that you have ONE CHANCE. To get it right. Your user interface looks). Http:/ discussion.autode...

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area 31: March 2006

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Custom programming, design ideas and other interesting oddities for CAD programmers. Tuesday, March 14, 2006. Inventor 10 Super-clean Un-install. With Inventor 11 right around the corner, I thought I'd post a step-by-step list of things required to properly remove Inventor 10. Now, I'm not suggesting you move to Inventor 11 as soon as it comes out. Most people wait for the first service pack but having a clean computer is a great starting point. Un-install "Autodesk Inventor10" using Add/Remove programs.