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1. #How to create a tool palette in autocad civil 3d code#
2. #How to create a tool palette in autocad civil 3d series#
3. #How to create a tool palette in autocad civil 3d windows#

If we select the second tab, we see things are better, there:

We can see that this tab hosts our control, but it doesn’t fill the palette. When we NETLOAD it into AutoCAD and run the WPFP command, we should see our docked palette set with the first tab visible: We then use the standard Add() method to add it, as we have done in the past

#How to create a tool palette in autocad civil 3d code#

The above code deliberately adds two instances of our control into the PaletteSet, to show the different techniques for doing so: NET assemblies System.Drawing and WindowsFormsIntegration (in addition to the usual AcMgd.dll and AcDbMgd.dll, of course). host it in an ElementHost, which allowsįor the application to build you’ll need to add project references to the.

Create our second user control instance and host it on a palette using AddVisual() Create our first user control instance and Now it’s simply a matter of defining a command to create a PaletteSet to host our WPF content: Now we should see our User Control has taken shape: I simply added it to the project via the Solution Explorer, using Add –> Existing Item… no need to create a resource. You can copy & paste this XAML into the editing pane:įor this to work, I added a simple screenshot of this blog as an item in the project, calling it “TTIF.png”. Now we should see our blank user-control hosted in both a designer window and a XAML editing pane:įor the content of our user-control, I decided to take a static 2D image and apply some effects to it, inspired by this page, which also has a thorough explanation of the various effects applied (which saves me from doing the same :-). We’ll accept the default name for the purposes of this project. In this post I’m going to walk through creating a simple WPF User Control which we can then host inside an AutoCAD PaletteSet.įirstly we need to add a WPF User Control to our Visual Studio 2008 (or higher) project:

#How to create a tool palette in autocad civil 3d series#

For those wanting a thorough grounding in WPF, I recommend watching Fenton Webb’s highly-rated webcast series on WPF, just one of the interesting webcasts that can be downloaded and viewed from our API training schedule:ĪutoCAD: Using WPF in your Applications - Part 1 (28.9 Mb)ĪutoCAD: Using WPF in your Applications - Part 2 (16.3 Mb)

#How to create a tool palette in autocad civil 3d windows#

NET application to use WPF, the Windows Presentation Foundation. I’ve been working on upgrading the WinForms user interface of an existing. The good news, though, is that I got distracted by something genuinely interesting, and well worth sharing. OK, OK: I know I said I’d talk more about overrules, last week, but – as is often the way, I’m afraid to say – I got distracted.