Moving to Wordpress

I'm consolidating most of my blogs and moving them to Wordpress. You can catch my new blog posts here:

www.redefinedhorizonsblog.com.

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Creating A Ribbon Tab for AutoCAD

The civil3d.com Blog has a post that explains how to create a Ribbon tab for existing commands using the CUI editor. The post provides links to two (2) separate videos. The first video shows how to create a ribbon tab from an old CUI or MNU file, the second video shows how to create a ribbon tab from scratch.

Wikipedia has some basic information about ribbons. The MSDN web site has some information on Ribbons for programmers.

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XAMLPad for WPF

You can use Visual Basic .Net to customize Autodesk AutoCAD products. Visual Basic .Net can now take advantage of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), the replacement for Windows Forms.

You can download a free tool to write the XML files that WPF uses to represent a GUI. These files are parsed by a Visual Basic .Net program and then used to construct the GUI. The free tool is called XamlPad, and it even comes with a feature that allows you to preview the GUI that will be created by XAML file you have writtent. Not quite a GUI Builder, but pretty close!

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Better Rounded Corners In Sketch-Up

The Official Google Sketch-Up Blog had a recent tip on how to make rounded edges in Sketch-Up look better. I wanted to share it with my readers.

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