When working with the Navisworks NwCreate API, you may encounter an exception at LiNwcApiTerminate(). This issue occurs in multiple versions, including NwCreate 2022, 2023, and 2024. This post ...

With the release of Inventor Design Automation (DA) 2026, Autodesk has taken a major step forward by providing only a .NET 8-based Inventor Server. This marks an important shift for developers, ...

If you wish to change a Property's value on a document having Model States, the workflow via API is the similar to the Inventor UI: Activate the required Model State using ModelState.Activate. Set the ...

On January 30th, 2024, we hosted a webinar on moving to .NET core covering Autodesk's flagship products, AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor. - How to Create, Build and Debug .NET 8 Plugin for AutoCAD ...

The TinSurface object has a Triangle property, which allow access to the list of triangles of the surface. But the TinVolumeSurface does not offer this property. The workaround is to use the COM ...

Here is a topic that comes up every now and then: how do you access a specific instance of a COM application if several instances are running with a similar ProgId? The GetActiveObject(progId) ...

Check here the Part 1 of this series. The first example script is taken from an older Autodesk University class (AU Python PDF). The pdf is available here. Beginning on page 44, the pdf creates a ...

Large corporations prefer to deploy custom AutoCAD OEM suites using SCCM, here is preferred way to do, in the configuration manager tool you need to enter setup.exe /t /q /c AOEM: ...

The most interesting part of this script, other than the geometry, is the metadata. Note that the group defines where the script shows up in the spec editor. The tooltips show when the dimensions are ...

In AutoCAD, entities such as circles, lines, and other objects are stored in the AutoCAD database. The AcDbHelper class in our plugin facilitates the creation and manipulation of AutoCAD entities. We ...

On Revit MEP projects (also available on Revit), we can read the Loss Method data, but the information about the ASHRAE Table is not directly hosted on the element. So the question is: how access this ...

Here is a sample code to create a simple Polygon mesh using ObjectARX. When AcDbPolygonMesh() constructor is used without any parameters,vertex count in M and N directions has to be set explicitly and ...