More often that not I am usually trying to get data out of AutoCAD. However, over the years I have made lots of lisp routines that enhance or modify existing tables created by a piping software and in truth I’ve even lazily used the DATAEXTRACTION command as part of a manual 2D isometric programs BOM. […]
Hello again, as you know I have been playing with PDF API’s quite a bit lately and came upon a situation where I needed to make a ton of small PDF binders. I was able to grab and organize all of the files into individual folders using lisp quite efficiently, but ultimately I didn’t have […]
This post isn’t actually BIM software related, but it is something all of us BIM people have to deal with on a regular basis. In this post I will be doing a product review on XFinium PDF toolkit, providing a working example of how to work with their demo version and talking about the Engineer/Designer […]
Wrappers have always been something of a magical thing to me. It is the process of taking something programmatically impractical or just plain out of reach and making it more accessible. This would usually be a bullet proof and complete encapsulation of the thing being wrapped that hides anything they chose not to support. Well, […]
As I told you guys a while ago, I had a personal goal to put a keyboard shortcut interface back into Navisworks. That command line project isn’t quite done yet, but I wanted to share the backbone of the system. To make my project viable, I had figured out what the ExecuteCommand method actually did. […]
I was about to make a post involving a (somewhat) novelty Navisworks plugin and went looking for someone else’s rendition of manually installing a Navisworks Plugin and wasn’t real pleased with what I found. So, here I am posting for the sake of having something to reference….. However, to make this meaningful, I am going […]
I was reading a post about the limitations of Attributed text values within Navisworks today. It made me recall a trick that I conjured on a past project and thought it would make an excellent post. To be clear though, you cannot natively display the values of an attribute in Navisworks!! It is a 3D model […]
