Welcome to Instant Autodesk AutoCAD 2014 Customization with .NET. If you are new to writing custom AutoCAD applications, you are in for a real treat! There is great satisfaction that comes with knowing that you helped accelerate your company's or client's design process, improved drawing accuracy, minimized time spent on repetitive or demanding tasks, and reduced errors, all of which results in being able to deliver products faster than would have been possible without your custom CAD tools.
In this book, we'll create a toolbox full of small but useful AutoCAD plugins to handle common tasks: creating custom AutoCAD commands, reading and writing extended data, communicating with other applications, organizing and processing information, publishing drawings, and more. These are the building blocks of most custom AutoCAD programs. From these, you will conceive and develop more elaborate building blocks, specialized for your particular requirements. You will achieve productivity gains and improve the quality of your designs, products, and processes. Sound good? Let's get started!