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Avishai

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Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« on: September 19, 2011, 01:44:00 pm »
Has anyone looked in to the possibility of approaching AutoDesk about making Lazarus/FPC a programming language for Autocad?  I think it would almost instantly increase the popularity of Lazarus/FPC and I know it would be a huge improvement for Autocad.  It seems to me that all that would be needed is a means of communicating with Autocad and a library.
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Re: Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2011, 02:56:40 pm »
Hello, If someone wants to start, I read that Autocad files, are Ascii files, with instruccions to "render" the files. More info in Autocad website.

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Re: Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2011, 04:46:52 pm »
I just looked at an Acad DWG file.  It is not a text file.
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Re: Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2011, 05:15:14 pm »

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Re: Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2011, 05:39:59 pm »
Why would you wish to interface to AutoCAD? Especially since it is a Windows-only solution, so the full potential of Laz/FPC couldn't be unleashed...
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Re: Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2011, 06:01:06 pm »
Actually, Acad also runs on Mac.  The reason I would like to see it is that Acad only has 2 languages that it supports.  VB and Lisp.  Both are poor choices in my opinion.  I think you have to buy VB but I may be wrong.  There are ways to make Python work with Acad and maybe others, but I have not tried them and AutoDesk does not support them.  Anyway, it was an idea.  If it increased the popularity of LAzarus/FPC and maybe got some corporate sponsorship, would that be a bad thing?
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Re: Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2011, 07:50:21 pm »
You are right, that might be a good idea, but sounds quite hard to implement...
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Re: Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2011, 08:05:27 pm »
I think it is easier than you might think.  From Acad 2000 to Acad 2007 I was able to run Acad with Delphi 6.  I could draw any object and some of the objects were complex objects.  I could switch tabs, set up MViews, almost anything I needed to do.  If Acad provided the hook to the command processor, that would be all you needed.
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Re: Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2011, 08:44:50 pm »
The solution is simple;
Make an AutoCad clone in Lazarus-FPC :D
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Re: Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2011, 10:22:47 pm »

Avishai

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Re: Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2011, 10:44:15 pm »
More like this.
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Re: Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2011, 11:15:44 pm »
Ok yours is cooler then mine,but then again I'm not really creating a cad. it's more like a modern opengl tool kit for gui design. the kind of tool kit you would want to have if you were tring to make a cad. 

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Re: Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2011, 10:27:04 am »
The solution is simple;
Make an AutoCad clone in Lazarus-FPC :D
That's my philosophy, if nothing suites you, make it your self!

Well, perhaps the solution might be to take LibreCAD+LibreDWG and add FP and all command hooks needet to it which should be easier than in ACAD since it's open source... That might be a great product...
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Re: Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« Reply #13 on: September 20, 2011, 11:32:42 am »
Hello, I think it will a huge project, like Lazarus. I would like work on it.

In other way, I think must be based on OpenGl to render the draws.

It's a very huge project for me. But Thinking on it I love it.

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Re: Autocad and Lazarus/FPC?
« Reply #14 on: September 20, 2011, 12:06:25 pm »
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take LibreCAD+LibreDWG and add FP
That sounds like fun.  If I could use Lazarus/FPC to develope, I would like to get involved, but it is C++ I think.  But I think LibreCAD is 2D only.
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