Category: AutoCAD
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Build AutoCAD UI with AI in 5 Steps | acad-cuix-builder + Agentic skills
Adding a custom UI to AutoCAD traditionally means using the CUI Editor or the AutoCAD CUI API (AcCui.dll) — a manual process that is verbose, easy to get wrong, and requires reloading the customization file every time you iterate. Meet acad-cuix-builder, an agentic skill that skips all of that: it builds a complete .cuix file…
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AutoCAD 2026 .NET 10 Update Beta Preview is Now Available
The AutoCAD 2026 .NET 10 Update Beta Preview is now available for developers through the Autodesk Feedback Portal. This preview introduces support for .NET 10 in AutoCAD 2026. This is a breaking update delivered during the release cycle, which is not something we have done in the past. The main reason for this update is…
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Agentic Skill for ARX Project Creation
The ObjectARX Wizard is the go-to starting point for AutoCAD C++ plug-in development — but it only works with Visual Studio 2022. When we tried to bring it forward to VS 2026, we hit a wall: VS 2026 dropped the VsWizardEngine the wizard depends on (MS Developer Community #11071541). Rather than working around the broken…
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Building a Signed AutoCAD OEM Installer — Avoiding ODIS Error 15
If you ship a product built on the AutoCAD OEM platform, you eventually have to produce a distributable installer, get it digitally signed, and make sure it installs cleanly on a customer machine. Simple in theory. In practice, one mis-ordered step can silently break the signature and customers may hit Error 15 during installation with…
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The Story of ScriptPro+ Modernization
ScriptPro+ has a rich history within the CAD community. It was initially written as a “Plugin of the Month” over a decade ago by Virupaksha (Viru) Aithal. I later expanded its accessibility by creating an MSI installer using the open-source WiX toolset (available here). The Push for Modernization Starting with AutoCAD 2025, AutoCAD migrated to…
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Why your AutoCAD OEM installer silently crashes on customer machines (and how to fix it)
We just closed a support ticket that took a month of back-and-forth, and it ended up being a really interesting lesson in how antivirus software works under the hood. If you build products on AutoCAD OEM, you might have run into this scenario: a customer runs your installer, the UI flashes for a split second,…
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AutoCAD 2027 SDK: What Every Plugin Developer Needs to Know?
AutoCAD 2027 ships with a new ObjectARX SDK. If you maintain C++ or .NET plugins for AutoCAD, this post covers what changed in the development environment, what the compatibility picture looks like, and where to find the full API delta. Binary Compatibility & Development Environment Not every AutoCAD release breaks compatibility. When two releases are…
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Batch Automation : DGN to DWG
I often get this request to batch automate converting DGN files to DWG files with minimal overhead, we can leverage either APS Automation service or local instance of AcCoreConsole that is part of AutoCAD. @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion REM ============================================================ REM dgn2dwg_batch.bat REM Batch-convert all .DGN files in a folder to .DWG using AutoCAD REM…
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Guardrails for Using AI in Autodesk Plugin Development
This post outlines curated guardrails for the effective use of Copilot and other agentic AI tools when developing plugins and extensions for Autodesk authoring applications such as AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor. I used ChatGPT to help refine the wording. Consider it quiet LLM cannibalism. :) These guardrails can be enforced by placing them in your…
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Announcement: AutoCAD Next Release Beta
Join AutoCAD Beta program and including Toolset updates for next release.
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