OVERVIEW
This section of Autodesk Labs containing a “plugin of the month" is brought to you by the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN). The plugins we’re providing will be simple productivity enhancing tools and utilities that streamline the use of one of our applications. The plugins are developed by Autodesk or by other Autodesk Developer Network members.
All of the plugins we provide come with full source code to show what goes on inside and will have taken a relatively small amount of time to develop (from half a day up to about a week). The idea behind this is that nothing we deliver will be especially "out-of-reach" for someone wishing to invest in learning and using our Application Program Interfaces (APIs). Hopefully you are inspired to create your own plugins.
THIS MONTH'S PLUGIN
Screenshot for AutoCAD
This plugin can be used with AutoCAD to simplify the process of capturing images of parts of drawings, or the entire drawing or application windows. It optionally allows you to remap the background to white and the foreground to black, and convert the entire image to grayscale, as well as sending the capture image directly to a printer.
Supported Applications
- AutoCAD 2007 and later
- AutoCAD 2007 and later based applications
LAST MONTH'S PLUGIN
See the updates page for plugins from previous months.
NEXT MONTH'S PLUGIN
Layer Reporter for AutoCAD
HELP US OUT
To help drive this forward, we would really like to hear from you:
- How well do these ADN plugins work for you?
- Does the source code provided help you see how easily you could create similar plugins yourself?
- Are there annoying issues you would like to see addressed (whether in an Autodesk product or via a simple utility)?
- Do you have your own simple utility you would like you make available as a "plugin of the month"?
Please contact us using the feedback mechanisms in the upper right part of this page. You can also post comments on the It's Alive in the Lab blog or Through the Interface blog.