Custom CAD

February 1998 / Reviews / CADzooks! What a Deal! / Custom CAD

AutoCAD has several levels of customization tools. With IntelliCAD, Visio provides full support for those menus and macros, and for AutoLISP (an interpreted LISP language). Compatibility see ms to approach 100 percent, except for those few commands that IntelliCAD doesn't yet support.
Professional developers often customize AutoCAD using ADS, a C-language API, and IntelliCAD supports ADS very well. Several developers have reported being able to port their applications to IntelliCAD successfully with just a simple recompile. The one major customization tool that IntelliCAD does not yet support is ARX, a C++ API that allows developers to create custom object types.

Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it is theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.

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