By David Wolfe (Contributor) In this series of posts, we will cover developing custom python scripts for AutoCAD Plant 3D. Along with learning about the development environment, we will cover ...

Here’s a draft White Paper for the Autodesk Autoloader, please feel free to comment but before you do please consider these points: 1) The Autoloader is designed to ...

By Wayne Brill You may need to add a file and associate it to a file that already exists in the vault. This VB.NET example shows how this can be done. The example as I tested it adds an excel file on ...

By Xiaodong Liang Issue How do I delete Xdata that is attached to an entity? Solution The following sample code demonstrates how to delete an Entity's Extended Entity data. VBA: Sub test() Dim obj As ...

These digits like E000:409 are a ProductID (E000) and a LocaleID (409). The ProductID structure is a 4-digit value. However, prior to AutoCAD 2006, the ProductID structure was only 3-digits with a ...

Fenton has been a member of the Autodesk DevTech team since 2000. Originally a member of the EMEA Team, he recently relocated to California to work for DevTech Americas. Fenton is an expert in all the ...

By Chandra shekar Gopal iProperty is a set of attributes for each Inventor file such as part number, description and physical material. You can also create custom iProperties. From each document you ...

By Balaji Ramamoorthy Layers can be assigned a transparency value using the AutoCAD's layer dialog. Here is sample code to show you how a similar result can be achieved using the AutoCAD .Net API. But ...

By Madhukar Moogala We will see in this blog how can we set the contents of a AcDbText entity to a field linking to contents of another AcDbText. Two APIs to be noted here, AcFdMakeFieldCode, formats ...

By Sajith Subramanian If you wish to change a Property's value on a document having Model States, the workflow via API is the similar to the Inventor UI: Activate the required Model State using ...