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Time for a change: An Autodesk Free One!

December 1, 2011 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
Dynamite VSP Boom

It’s time for a little announcement and yes, you heard it here first… I’m officially Autodesk-free! And what a great feeling that is to not have to deal with an entity “where software goes to die” (can’t remember who first came up with that one but don’t mind me quoting you). Not having to deal with lacking and/or online only docs and the poor state of the Civil 3D API is not unlike wearing shoes that are too small and being able to them off… a feeling of relief, that is. Development has not been as fun and exciting as it was prior to Autodesk acquiring Dynamite VSP (and rebranding it as Civil View, integrated with 3ds max Design) and because of my 6000 mile relocation and in particular other plans I have for my business and the directions it should be heading into it seems about the right time to leave the Dynamite development arena so I can reclaim the time I normally spent on it and put it towards cool and new things. You can learn about the cool new things on ignyter.com and ignytion.com once I am (legally) able to unveil those. Which, granted, may be a while yet before I can, and will.

Filed Under: Personal, Software, Software Development Tagged With: 3AM Solutions, Autodesk, Civil 3D, Civil View, Dynamite VSP, Engineering, Software, Visualization

VS2010 Debugger and Autodesk Civil 3D 2012 breakpoint and no-source issues

April 17, 2011 by Stefan Didak 1 Comment
Debugging in Autodesk Civil 3D 2012 using .NET 4.0

If you are having trouble debugging your addons/plugins for Autodesk Civil 3D release 2012 you are certainly going to want to read this. The information presented also appears to be applicable to other products such as Autodesk Inventor 2012 and AutoCAD MEP. Probably even all AutoCAD 2012 based products. You probably found this post while searching for things relating to debugging your AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 addons and running into a problem where the Visual Studio 2010 debugger fails to hit your breakpoints and does not show you the source of your application that you are debugging.

Filed Under: Software Development Tagged With: 2012, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Civil 3D, Debugger, Debugging, Source Code, Visual Studio, VS2010

Autodesk Acquires Dynamite VSP and Dynamite SIM from 3AM Solutions

January 5, 2010 by Stefan Didak 1 Comment
3am Solutions Dynamite VSP 4.0

SAN RAFAEL, California, Jan 5, 2010 – Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) announced that it has completed the acquisition of Dynamite VSP and Dynamite SIM visualization software products and related assets. The products were purchased from 3AM Solutions, a UK-based privately owned technology company that develops visualization software for civil infrastructure. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Filed Under: Personal, Software, Software Development, Windows Software Tagged With: Autodesk, Civil, Civil 3D, Dynamite, Engineering, Graphics, Press Release, Product, Software, Visualization

Rebuilding all or all out of date Corridors in Autodesk Civil 3D 2010

November 12, 2009 by Stefan Didak 1 Comment
Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D

If you’ve ever needed to frequently rebuild multiple corridors in Autodesk Civil 3D because they are out of date but don’t want to go hit the rebuild menu item for each single corridor then here’s the solution. The following microscopic addon/plugin for Civil 3D 2010 allows you to rebuild all corridors or rebuild all out of date corridors, at once. Unzip the DLL to a location of your choice and you can use netload and load the Civil.RBC.dll (or if you want the functions available, hook it up in the acad2010.lsp file like this…

Filed Under: Software, Software Development, Windows Software Tagged With: Addon, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Civil, Civil 3D, Engineering, Free, Freeware, Plugin, Software Development

Visual Studio Dark Color Schemes and Themes

January 9, 2008 by Stefan Didak 9 Comments
Visual Studio Dark Themes

The result is that I am finding it very annoying and painful on the eyes. But not so much the color schemes using a dark background themselves, but rather the practical implications when using it while doing actual work. The dark background allows for better highlighting of code, no doubt about that, but in a practical situation I often have other applications running on the screens which include things like help files, CHM’s and PDF’s with developer documentation and API docs, Outlook, OneNote, Visio, and many other development tools, etc. and almost all of these applications will use a light or white background as a basis.

Filed Under: Software Development, Windows Software Tagged With: Colors, Microsoft, Software Development, Theme, Visual Studio, Windows

Short List of PowerShell Resources

September 6, 2007 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
PowerShell

I’ve recently been really getting into PowerShell and investigating its potential as a new automation and scripting platform for the countless command line based processes I’m running all the time. The first thing I did was purchase a copy of PowerShell Analyzer, which I think is one of the most valuable tools for anyone getting serious about digging into PowerShell’s object paradigm. And while you’re checking out PowerShell Analyzer, check out what the Shell Tools guys are working on; PowerShell Plus. Amazing stuff.

Filed Under: Software, Software Development, Windows Software Tagged With: Administration, Automation, Commandline, Microsoft, Powershell, Server, Software, Software Development, Windows

Development with ADD, CDD, CYAE, DBD, GMPM

June 22, 2007 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
Confessions Of A Public Speaker, Scott Berkun

What do you mean you’ve never heard of those groundbreaking development methodologies? Well, perhaps you haven’t but I do think you should check them out if you’ve got a minute so Scott Berkun can explain these to you in detail. I would like to add, OOCDD, Out Of Control Driven Development. Unlike most methodologies, it’s an encapsulated methodology that derives from all others. Especially considering how out of control development gets, regardless of methodology.

Filed Under: Software Development Tagged With: Engineering, Management, Personal, Software, Software Development, Web-bits

Consolidating scattered Content

December 23, 2006 by Stefan Didak 2 Comments
Stefan Didak Home Office Version 6

I’ve decided to consolidate some of the old content into my new site. Over the years a lot of content has been in various places and it’s rather hard to keep track of it all. Links to the old material should still work as well, though you will get redirected to the new personal site.

Filed Under: Personal, Software Development, The Web Tagged With: Blogging, Consolidation, Website

Is .NET (dot NET) the future of 3D applications and development?

August 19, 2002 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
Microsoft .NET Framework

Since the initial publication by mantiCORE Labs several companies such as Softimage and Autodesk and have recognized the relevance of .NET and have, at the end of 2006 both released products that offer some integration with .NET….it ‘only’ took them 4 years. This article has been written with three different categories of readers in mind; Developers (including script writers and plugin programmers) of DCC software products and add-on applications, managers involved in the business and the technology of software development and users of DCC software. Kick back for a long but hopefully interesting read of what the future might bring, yet also about what the future should bring.

Filed Under: Lengthy, Software, Software Development Tagged With: .NET, 3D, Framework, Future, Graphics, Microsoft, Mono, Software Development, Windows

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