A California man is sentenced to 7 years and ordered to pay more than 5.4 million restitution for software piracy. Among the products his company "sold" were applications developed by Autodesk and Adobe.

CNet News story

Cadalyst story

Labels: Piracy

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PermaLink       Posted 9/26/2006 07:44:00 AM      Comments (0)

Here are some links to utilities that allow you to print the contents of STB and CTB files.

Autodesk Tools - Select your AutoCAD version

2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2002

3rd party tool

All versions - noliturbare.com

Labels: Add-on utilities, Tips

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PermaLink       Posted 9/25/2006 09:00:00 AM      Comments (0)

Here's another blog to add to your reader...
Knowing What You Don't Know About CAD: Blog | RSS Feed

Also, add your thoughts to the current CAD Managers Survey conducted by Robert Green, the results of which will be published in the November issue of Cadalyst.

Labels: New Blogs

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PermaLink       Posted 9/22/2006 07:15:00 AM      Comments (0)

The Open Design Alliance (ODA) now supports the AutoCAD 2007 Drawing Format, including the ability to create what Autodesk calls "trusted" DWG files.

See this article for more details.

Labels: Notices

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PermaLink       Posted 9/14/2006 10:26:00 AM      Comments (0)

The CADTutor forums have been updated with new software and a new look.

Thanks to David (CADTutor himself) for all the hard work in making this happen.

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PermaLink       Posted 9/11/2006 07:30:00 AM      Comments (0)

Here is one way to create a field linked to an object. For example, this could be used if you wanted to write your own program to label the area of closed polylines, but you want to use a dynamic field instead of a static TEXT entity.

(vl-load-com)
;;get a reference to model space
(setq *model-space*
       (vla-get-ModelSpace
         (vla-get-ActiveDocument (vlax-get-acad-object))
       )
)
;;pass this function an entity and a point
(defun LinkedArea (ent pt / obj objID ip width str)
  ;;convert the entity to an object
  (setq obj   (vlax-ename->vla-object ent)
        ;;get the object ID
        objID (vla-get-objectid obj)
        ;;convert the point
        ip    (vlax-3D-Point pt)
        ;;set the width for the MTEXT
        width 0.0
        ;;set the string - this creates the field
        str   (strcat
                "%<\\AcObjProp.16.2 Object(%<\\_ObjId "
                (rtos objID 2 0)
                ">%).Area \\f \"%lu2%pr2%ps[, Acres]%ct8[2.295684113865932e-005]\">%"
              )
  )
   ;;Create the MTEXT entity containing the field.
  (vla-addMText *model-space* ip width str)
)

Then, you can call this function like this:

;; Set A = the entity and set B = Point for text
(setq a (car (entsel)) b (getpoint "\n Select Point: "))
;;Call the function
(linkedarea a b)

This particular string creates a field that converts the AREA (assumed to be Square Feet) to Acres. The resulting label will be a field displayed something like 3.97 Acres.

For just the basic area itself, at the current precision, you could use:

%<\AcObjProp Object(%<\_ObjId 2130432400>%).Area \f "%lu2">%

...replacing the embedded ObjectID with the ObjectID you retreive from your entity.

Labels: Tips

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PermaLink       Posted 9/06/2006 08:41:00 AM      Comments (0)

http://www.teamdwf.com/

http://auol.wordpress.com/

http://au2006.blogspot.com/

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PermaLink       Posted 9/02/2006 07:27:00 AM      Comments (0)

The owner of a website selling pirated software had been sentenced to six years in jail and ordered him to pay $4.1 million. Autodesk will share the $4.1 million restitution order with Adobe.

http://management.cadalyst.com/cadman/article/arti...

Labels: Piracy

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PermaLink       Posted 9/02/2006 07:22:00 AM      Comments (0)