Through the Interface

Capturing a point cloud of a monument using Photosynth

A couple of weekends ago, shortly after returning from our trip to the States, I walked down to the area of Lake Neuchâtel that’s nearest our house, called La Tène (which is now also the name of our local commune (or municipality), which was recently created as a result of fusing Marin-Epagnier with Thielle-Wavre… thankfully they didn’t call it Marin-Epagnier-Thielle-Wavre ;-). On the way I stopped off to take a few photos of a local monument. La Tène culture is apparently quite famous in archeological circles, and the monument itself is pretty cool. It’s a replica of an Iron... Read more →

AU Handouts: There's More to .DWG Than AutoCAD® - Part 3

[This post continues from part 1 and part 2 of this series.] Building a full editing product using AutoCAD OEM Now we’re going to take our AutoCAD .NET module from the beginning of the session and build a complete CAD package around it. AutoCAD OEM allows you to build a custom-branded version of AutoCAD, with the subset of AutoCAD’s own features and additional functionality you choose to build in. A key feature of AutoCAD OEM is its security layer, which will stop any module being loaded that has not been built in by design. By limiting its extensibility –... Read more →

Recorded presentation on Autodesk's Component Technologies

It's been quite a week... I was attending Autodesk's annual One Team Conference in Las Vegas, and had a number of meetings before, during and afterwards (hence my inability to make any posts whatsoever since Sunday). It was hectic, but a great event - the highlight for me was the keynote address on Wednesday by none other that Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States! Wow. Anyway, late last week it came to my attention that a presentation of mine had made it onto one of Autodesk's public websites. Thanks to posts on Jimmy Bergmark's and Scott... Read more →

Webcast in the making

I thought I’d mention one of the projects we’re working on in DevTech right now. We’re planning a webcast for later this year, to talk our developers through the various technologies Autodesk provides to create/access/view native DWG data and published DWF data. Here’s the idea: we show the generation of native DWG data using AutoCAD 2007 (in this case creating a number of 3D solids). We then take show how various technologies can be used to make use of the information stored in the native DWG file. Afterwards, we’ll publish the data to DWF – showing the capacity to... Read more →