I am working on upgrading a client's autocad from 2012 to 2015 and I am completely ignorant of autocad. I am a developer who was given a .net project which uses autocad, but until now I've been able to leave that part of the project untouched. I downloaded the 2015 trial and found the acdbmgd.dll file I needed. However, the 2015 version doesn't seem to contain a dll called "acmgd.dll". Is there an equivalent dll in 2015? Again, I have no idea what I'm referring to, I'm trying to convert this project without learning autocad.
Thanks!
First, dotNET development board is here: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/NET/bd-p/152
Second, in order to program for AutoCAD you really do need to understand the basics. If you haven't already, I'd *strongly* suggest downloading the SDK which includes references you can program against without having to hunt through the actual installs.
I found "acmgd.dll" in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2015. The dll has clearly changed some in the new version of autocad, it seems most of the references are still broken in the code when i reference the new dll. I don't see any XML comments explaining the functions, so how would you recommend I figure out what the equivalent of the old code is in 2015? Is more detailed developer documentation anywhere?
Dim ed As Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput.Editor = doc.Editor - old code
Dim ed As Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput.EditorExtension - what i see when looking for equivalent code in 2015 version
Migration (and other functionality) is detailed in the SDK, as well as many posts in the dotNET board. Most of the posters here in the general AutoCAD board don't know the first thing about programming so they won't be as much help.