ObjectARX Primer

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Summary: As Expected
Review: Good for managers and those who need to understand why custom CAD programming is beneficial.
This book explains how custom programs can help enforce company standards, save time, and cut costs without getting to technical.

It is what I expected. A cursory overview of what the technology has to offer a corporate situation.

You will need a follow up book to write programs with using ObjectARX technology.

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Summary: Very uncomfortable
Review: I thought it will give me plenty of programming example atleast. Only last chapter is dedicated on very very premitive sample application. For a person like me in third world country, amount I paid is very high against return I got. I have ordered other book. This book should be titled like "Theory of ObjectARX" or something like that. First few chapters deals with principles of Object oriented programming, etc... etc..., which can not become part book titled "ObjectARX Primer". Refering this book, by no means, can help any one to start learning ObjectARX programming or start writing ObjectARX applications.

I am fairly disappointed.

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Summary: ObjectARX Primer
Review: The ObjectARX Primer by Bill Kramer one of the most succinct, clearly written books about anything AutoCAD that I've ever read, and that's been over 12 years of sorting out the AutoCAD Command Line and what's behind it. Targeted for the full range of AutoCAD users, administrators, managers, and even curious executives, Bill Kramer introduces his topic with a cogent discussion of why AutoCAD should be customized instead of just using it "out of the box" that any hard-nosed-capitalist boss would find convincing. He continues with a masterful, non-geek-speak review of the programming interface and the major ObjectARX tools, then finishes with well thought out advice to those wanting further resources. All of this is nicely bundled into a mere 185 pages, complete with clear, diagramatic illustrations, C++ code fragments, and even an index! I would HIGHLY recommend this book to ANYone with ANY interest in ObjectARX programming, at ANY level.

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Summary: For managers NOT developers
Review: This book spends less than 70 pages talking about ARX, most of it is dedicated to the history of programming. If your a developer get the Programming ARX book, and get a membership to the AutoCAD's developer network.

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Summary: An outstanding little book...
Review: This is a great book. I have both of the ObjectARX series from Autodesk press, and although I have read both, this one can really turn the lights on, because it is a concept-driven, rather than code-driven book. In particular, the explanations of derivation from AcDbEntity and the AcGi classes used for entity representation are very well put forth.

You won't find much code here, but great history of how we got here and the concepts for moving forward. Also good explanations of "why" you would want to do things this way.

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Summary: ObjectARX Primer
Review: This is a must for anyone interested in programming Autocad in C++ or those who want to know what all the fuss about C++ and AutoCad is about. My background is engineering and programming Autocad from the Autolisp side. I have delved into C++ to a minimum degree to the point I know the overall concepts. This book is targeted more to those who may not have a thorough knowledge of C++ but do know Autocad to some degree. The areas covered by this book include the why (why one would customize autocad); the history of the customization (Autolisp, ADS, ARX) and finally the pros, cons and hows or ObjectARX programming. This of course is a Primer book and will most likely proceed a title such as "Programming AutoCAD 2000 using ObjectARX". I would recommend this title as a quick immersion into the world of ObjectARX.

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Summary: ObjectARX Primer
Review: This is a must for anyone interested in programming Autocad in C++ or those who want to know what all the fuss about C++ and AutoCad is about. My background is engineering and programming Autocad from the Autolisp side. I have delved into C++ to a minimum degree to the point I know the overall concepts. This book is targeted more to those who may not have a thorough knowledge of C++ but do know Autocad to some degree. The areas covered by this book include the why (why one would customize autocad); the history of the customization (Autolisp, ADS, ARX) and finally the pros, cons and hows or ObjectARX programming. This of course is a Primer book and will most likely proceed a title such as "Programming AutoCAD 2000 using ObjectARX". I would recommend this title as a quick immersion into the world of ObjectARX.