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area 31: February 2005

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Custom programming, design ideas and other interesting oddities for CAD programmers. Thursday, February 10, 2005. Inserting Point Data into AutoCAD. I'll show two methods of bringing in 2D data, as points and as a lightweight polyline. The sample data I'll be using is tab separated, but you can easily change the code to work with any delimiter character. With both routines, I have hard coded the path to "C: ", either place the "pointdata.txt" file here or modify the path as you require. Dim pt As Variant.

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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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Dec 9 - ANSYS v14 Released

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Articles, reviews, tips. Get news delivered to you. Sign up for TenLinks Daily. Available this week for download. PITTSBURGH, PA, Dec 8, 2011 - ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) has launched the newest release of its engineering simulation technology suite, ANSYS 14.0. Designed to optimize product development processes, ANSYS solutions reduce the time and cost needed to foster product innovations. As a whole, ANSYS 14.0 delivers new benefits in three major areas:. Today’s products come with built-in complexity such a...

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Rande's Rantings & Ravings: March 2012

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Randes Rantings and Ravings. Thoughts on using and applying CADD and Technology in todays world. Thursday, March 29, 2012. Smart Geometry 2012 – part 1 an overview. Started this post several days ago sitting in the Albany, NY airport waiting for my flight home from the 2012 SmartGeometry Conference (SG2012). I was attending the conference for the first time as a member of the “Computer/CADD press” thanks to an opportunity afforded to me by. The 10 clusters were:. Kids Cluster: Building Manhattan. We (the...

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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.