For those who have used AutoCAD for a long duration and tried exploring the many under-the-hood techniques, understanding the cryptic methods of creating line types and hatch patterns was a daunting …
CAD Standards, especially those pertaining to layers can be enforced effectively by providing tools to the user that will make him/her easy to adhere to the published guidelines. The previou…
For those who have done some LISP programming for old generation CAD programs, coding was fun. LISP punched lots of power in few keywords or lines. Moreover the commands could be issued to the CAD pr…
This might be old hat to many of you, but for those this is new, here’s a quick run through the various ‘undocumented’ settings in the SEACAD.ini file.
About the SEACAD.ini File
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This article builds on the knowledge gained in the previous post Parametric Parts which discussed how to parametric parts by changing the values of part variables.
It is also possible to a…
CAD standards have come a long way in the last 30 years or so. For 2D data, standards used to be mainly about layers and colors, and font size, and how to set up a drawing so it could be printed prop…
This is the sixth post in the Automation series and the third article for Part Configurator. In retrospect: Take the First Steps to Automation Takeaway: • Getting started • Adding referenc…
The previous post on creating a programmatically configurable part used a If…Then structure to check which of the items in the list was selected by the user i.e. the SelectedIndex property of …
This article takes technique learnt in the previous post a step ahead and shows how to configure a Solid Edge model so its variants can be generated programmatically.
The earlier arti…
