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AutoCAD UI Winforms Design Guidelines

Dale.Bartlett — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 06:40:47 GMT

Hi All, I can't seem to locate a published guideline specifying AutoCAD Winform design specifications. For example: button sizes, colours, form sizes, control clearances, etc. Any links? Thanks again. Dale

Re: AutoCAD UI Winforms Design Guidelines

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:22:02 GMT

none that i recall, if any, but found this:

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?159459-CP304-4-AutoCAD-NET-Developing-a-User-Interface-Using-WinForms

might help you, it is by: Instructor: Gopinath Taget

Re: AutoCAD UI Winforms Design Guidelines

Dale.Bartlett — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:26:47 GMT

Hi, Thank you very much for the link. I came on this while searching, but the old AU content seems to be ditched. The Autodesk AU site only goes back to 2012 so I couldn't retreive the complete set. This will be helpful, but surely Autodesk has strict guidelines for their development team somewhere. Regards, Dale

Re: AutoCAD UI Winforms Design Guidelines

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:56:01 GMT

yes, i did not checked if this class was still avail (actually never tried that au place before), appears that from some time on, these handouts are on augi:

http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2005/02/au_handouts_fro.html

hth.-

Re: AutoCAD UI Winforms Design Guidelines

dgorsman — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 21:47:33 GMT

Almost certainly. However I doubt they are publicly available, and there is no need for you to follow them.

Re: AutoCAD UI Winforms Design Guidelines

Dale.Bartlett — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 06:05:17 GMT

I did see that AUGI were to host the AU content, then couldn't track it down, then found a post to the effect that it never happened. However, your link solved the confusion. All pre 2012 AU courses are here:

http://forums.augi.com/forumdisplay.php?1271-Autodesk

Why Autodesk is not hosting this valuable content is a mystery.

I am still looking for an official UI document similar to Autodesk Icon Guidelines 2008. I have searched the SDK but of course could have missed something (it happens..). Dale

Re: AutoCAD UI Winforms Design Guidelines

hgasty1001 — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:38:49 GMT

HI,

This is from Microsoft: UI Guidelines

This is from Apple: UI Design Basics

Gaston Nunez