Through the Interface

DevDays Online

For those of you who (like me) missed this year’s in-person DevDays – or perhaps have colleagues who would benefit from seeing sessions you managed to attend yourself in Las Vegas or elsewhere – you’ll be interested to hear that DevDays Online will be disseminating all that DevDays goodness over the wire during the month of February. The great news is that this isn’t being limited to ADN members: anyone can sign up and attend. The sessions will also be recorded, in case any are at times that don’t work for you. You can register to attend the various... Read more →

Building bridges

Last night the section of motorway closest to my home was closed from 10pm to 6am. They closed it to install a new cycle bridge intended primarily for children from one local village to cycle safely to school in another. Closing a motorway is considered quite an event around here, so a small crowd gathered to watch the proceedings in spite of the hour and the pre-spring nip in the air. Admittedly the drinks laid on by the local government – tea or wine, depending on your preferred approach for keeping warm – didn’t hurt the mood. At around... Read more →

AutoCAD and Civil 3D API wishlist surveys

The ADN team has recently announced their annual API wishlist surveys for both AutoCAD and AutoCAD Civil 3D. Our Engineering teams take the results of these surveys very seriously, and greatly appreciate the time you take to provide us with feedback on both our APIs and their related resources. The Civil 3D survey closes on June 15th, while the one for AutoCAD closes on June 21st. Thanks in advance for your feedback! Read more →

Announcing DevBlogs from ADN

I’m very happy to announce the creation of a series of new blogs by the Autodesk Developer Network team, marking a significant shift from the team creating material that’s only available to ADN members (i.e. DevNotes behind the ADN extranet) to creating material that’s available to everyone. The first two are available now: AutoCAD DevBlog Infrastructure Modeling DevBlog (You’ll find the ADN team has been generating material for some time, building up a decent head of steam before launching publicly.) To explain a bit of the background to these posts, check out Stephen Preston’s welcome post. Expect more of... Read more →

A new blog on AutoCAD Civil 3D development

Many readers of this blog are developing code to work with AutoCAD Civil 3D, so I have no doubt that the information in today’s post will be welcomed. Isaac Rodriguez, the Software Engineering Lead for the AutoCAD Civil 3D API, has started Civilized Development, a new blog about developing for AutoCAD Civil 3D. In his welcome post, Isaac describes his motivations for creating the blog and sets expectations for his readers. In case you have suggestions of topics for Isaac to cover, you can post a comment on his blog, email him or contact him via Twitter. A very... Read more →

Developing Autodesk Civil 3D applications with .NET

Thanks to Scott Wolter from Digital Vellum for suggesting this topic, and to Partha Sarkar (a member of the DevTech team in Bangalore, India) for contributing it... Welcome to the world of developing Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 applications with Visual Studio .NET. Autodesk Civil 3D provides interop assemblies that expose its COM interfaces for use from .NET technologies, such as VB.NET, C#. Before you start developing .NET applications for Autodesk Civil 3D 2007, I strongly recommend you apply the Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 Service Pack 1A, otherwise you may find some issues in referencing the Civil 3D TLB files... Read more →

Civil 3D 2007 Service Pack 1A Released

A number of additional fixes have been included in this Service Pack, with one being of particular interest to our development partners. If you use the Civil 3D API via COM Interop from Visual Studio 2005 (and possibly earlier versions of Visual Studio .NET), you will no longer be able to build your application once Civil 3D 2007 SP1 has been installed on your system: the installer for the first Service Pack inadvertently overwrites a few Registry keys that point to the Type Libraries for Civil 3D's COM API. This has been addressed in Service Pack 1A, which can... Read more →