Autocad Mechanical 2005 API Blues

Just posted this to vent: The API for Autocad Mechanical 2005 is a piece of junk!!!!! I bet not even half of the functionality available through the GUI is exposed in the API; which is kind of the point of having an API in the first place. I guess this lack of method/event/object exposure is the reason the documentation is so lame; there's nothing to document. I have never understood why a software company would go to the trouble of creating an API and then only do it part way. Autodesk, give me the tools I need to do my job!! I cannot build an entire house supplied with only a 2x4 and a pencil.

 

Part of the problem is a lot of the stuff is still Genius-based. But, I've
not experienced anything that I can't get to --- gotta go the long way to
get there a lot of times but I can always get there. Look at the MDT stuff,
too, as sometimes it can help figure out where you need to go.

-- Mike
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Mike Tuersley
CADalyst's CAD Clinic
Rand IMAGINiT Technologies
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