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Having recently built my house using AutoCAD as one of the CAD systems, I can relate to this story. A UK couple who are building their 1 million pound dream home are fighting a battle with authorities who are looking to tear it down - all because the blue prints were automatically scaled down by 4 percent to fit the page.… Continue

Earlier I had mentioned that there were some interesting things going in the ODA on the technology front. Today I can tell you what. The ODA and LEDAS, a Russian software company, formalized their partnership by issuing a press release announcing that LEDAS would implement their LGS 2D Geometric and Dimensional Constraint Solver into DWGdirect, a main component of the… Continue

More than seven months ago, in a post titled "DWGDirect and DRX Explained" I wrote:

"Take a look at their [ODA's] web site. This is what you see on the home page:

'The Open Design Alliance is a non-profit membership-based consortium of software companies, developers and users committed to promoting the open ex… Continue

In a post at Deelip.com six months ago, I wrote:

"It is my prediction that a version of AutoCAD in the not so distant future will have 3D direct modeling capabilities equivalent to (or probably better than) what we see today in SpaceClaim and Solid Edge ST."

Today I would like to reiterate my prediction once again. I believe it will eventually happen. It see… Continue

In my OpenCAD book, I explain how to write a DRX plug-in. I start with a simple "Hello World" plug-in using just 22 lines of code. I started a group called "DRX" at IntelliCAD.net and posted the 22 lines of code there. Daniel, a brilliant programmer and avid contributor to IntelliCAD.net, beat me by posting a minimal ARX/BRX plug-in on the "… Continue