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Civil 3D Project Template for Visual Studio

By Augusto Goncalves

This is a long time request: an easy way to create a Visual Studio project for Civil 3D using VB.NET or C#.

If you visit the AutoCAD Developer Center you’ll see some AutoCAD .NET Wizards for both VB.NET and C#, which is very powerful and can be customized. Some time ago I started by doing some templates for Revit, which still in use, so now I decided to try one for Civil 3D, and here it is.

Basic benefits:

• Create a simple project, nothing else;
• Configure all required references (AcMgd, AcCoreMgd, AcDbMgd, AecBaseMgd and AeccDbMgd) with respective reference paths;
• Debug settings ready;

Extra benefits:

• Create a basic PackageContents.xml with the basic required tags and attributes for Civil 3D;
• On build, copy all the files (DLL and XML) to a newly created folder under Application Plugins folder;
• On clean, remove the plugin folder from Application Plugins

Cons:

• The path are hardcoded to 2015 release. If you are using a different version, you’ll need to open and change the paths and reference versions.

To use it, simple download the packages below and place under [My Documents]\Visual Studio 2012\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual Basic\ folder for VB.NET or [My Documents]\Visual Studio 2012\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#\ folder for C#. Do not unzip the files.

VB.NET Template

C# Template

With the template .ZIP file in place, you should see the following:

Tip: you can organize it better by creating a subfolder “Autodesk” and placing the ZIP at this location.

Finally, I will be using these template at the AU Russia next week, if you are attending, come and say ‘hi’.

Autodesk Exchange Apps Hackathon – Big Success

By Virupaksha Aithal

The Autodesk Exchange Apps Hackathon – Big Success event is over. On behalf of the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) team I’d like to say a big “thank you” to all the publishers who has registered and submitted Apps to Autodesk exchange store. We have received more than 110 Apps as part of this event till date. Till september 30th, publishers can submit the Apps as part of this event.  Visit http://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad/2014/08/an-online-event-with-an-opportunity-to-receive-up-to-us-100-per-app-published-and-win-one-of-eight-i.html

Autodesk Exchange Apps Hackathon – update

By Virupaksha Aithal

Since we began the registration for Autodesk Exchange Apps Hackathon event, we received 145 registrations till date. We have received 74 Apps as part of the event. There is less than 3 days to the event. if you have not registered yet, visit Autodesk® Exchange Apps Hackathon http://exchangeapphack.com/

Discussions and presentations during the Hackathon include:

• How to architect your app for Autodesk Exchange?
• Developing cloud applications round table discussion
• Sustainability apps
• AutoCAD APIs roundtable discussion
• Advanced Exchange features – copy protection, IPN notifications, monthly subscriptions, selling web services
• Revit APIs roundtable discussion
• Max and Maya APIs round table discussion
• Inventor APIs round table discussion

for timing visit http://exchangeapphack.com/agenda/

Commercial Layers versions

Tomorrow, Friday September 12, we’ll be at the AEC Hackathon in Seattle. But before travelling, here is a quick list of links for AIMS: it supports 4 kind of commercial layers (Google, Yahoo, Bing and Open Street Map). Each uses its own API. The API links are:

http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?v=3.3
http://api.maps.yahoo.com/ajaxymap?v=3.0
http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.2
http://www.openstreetmap.org/openlayers/OpenStreetMap.js