JavaScript API

[kerry_w_brown]

Hi all,

Can anyone point to towards any use case examples to justify learning the  JavaScript API ??
I was asked this today by a client and was unable to justify the effort or, in fact, even explain any uses for it.

Regards,
Kerry

[_gile]

Hi Kerry,

I never used it, but I remember Kean Walmsley posted some pages about AutoCAD JavaScript API.

[kerry_w_brown]

Yep, about 10 years ago I think. I'll see if they can help.

[jose_coimbras1]

Hi.

I used some weeks ago. I can do something like a palette with buttons. Is relativity easy to do the code. The minus/bottom of all is lack of reallife examples, even in the internet. It does not interact with the DWG database (or i cannot do it), as example, read coordinates of a polyline... But can draw new entities with a OSNAP etc..
Search mya name in blogs you can find some use cases i done.
I think the API is almost the same since 2014...

[Ed__Jobe]

There has never been much development with JavaScript api. You may be interested in the python api. Daniel over at theSwamp has done a lot with it. He's created a wrapper for the arx/C++ api's.

[jose_coimbras1]

When needed i go to C# ...