Thankfully, I missed the whole DCL dialog coding language days. Don’t get me wrong, DCL is still around but with the addition of VBA into AutoCAD 2000 and then .Net, there is no reason to learn DCL in my opinion. In fact, the need to create a better user interface is what led me to begin looking into VBA from Lisp. I needed some dialog boxes for my lisp routines and VBA was the natural progression.
On August 21, 2009,
in Programming,
by Joshua Modglin
Sometimes you don’t to show existing ground beneath proposed grade. While a hide boundary is a relatively simple thing if you’re working in the original file, you can’t modify a data reference. And could pull out a mask, but that can get a bit convoluted if you’re trying to punch a whole that’s not a nice simply rectangle. So what’s a linework-obsessive Civil 3D user to do? Well, this one reaches in to the old bag of tricks that don’t always work nicely, but work when you need them. See my solution after the jump.
On August 19, 2009,
in civil3d.com,
by Mark Scacco, P.E.
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There are days that I just recall the oddest things. Today is one of them. While I like the ribbon and all, there are a few commands that aren’t on it, like the FIND command. ( to Find and Replace… type _FIND at the command line)
If you have a vague idea of the command, start typing that command in, and press the TAB key until you locate the command you are looking for.
For example, you seem frustrated with crashing, and would like some training.
at the command line,
Command: AI
Press the TAB key until you arrive at:
Command: AI_TRAINING_SAFE
if that doesn’t help, try stopping at:
Command: AI_PRODUCT_SUPPORT
If you are really frustrated stop at:
Command: ai_send_feedback
or as I did in the image, typed as to find ASSOCIATESHORTCUTPROJECT.
Happy keyboarding!
Note to you Civil 3ders – the Civil commands typically start with AECC.
On August 13, 2009,
in Programming,
by Joshua Modglin
As we continue our series with programming, I seem to be spending a lot of time on concepts and less on code. There is a reason for that. I think for most of us who program for Autodesk products, it was something that we just kind of ‘picked up’. Sure, we may have had a class or two in school about programming. But the reason we are playing around with it now was either out of:
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