Geometric Operations

• Offsetting a Curve on a Surface
• Closest point on a Brep object
• FindClosestVertex(): retrieve a vertex inside a Brep or Solid entity
• Fast intersection between Line and Mesh 🗲
• 3D Printer slicer
• Intersection points between Line and Mesh

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Drawing

• Curvature mapping for curves and surfaces
• How to draw a text on a cylindrical surface
• Extruding DWG/DXF profiles 💪
• Using SHX fonts
• Revision Cloud ☁️

Solid Modeling

• Ashtray
• Barbeque
• Bracket
• Bushing
• Cap
• Comb

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Surface Modeling

• Gym frame
• Sapientino
• Sink

Polyhedral Modeling

• House
• Medal

Drafting

• Bottle Opener
• CAD practice drawing

General

• Drawing entities above all others entities using TempEntities
• Rendered mesh in Wireframe DisplayMode
• Entities far from the origin: view shaking and bad precision
• Performance Tips
• ObjectManipulator customization
• Create points with a different shape

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Colors & Textures

• Create streamline-like curve
• Changing edge color for a single entity
• Colormap Mesh using Texture1D 🎨
• Mesh Custom Texture Mapping
• Textured Line or Curve
• Applying a Sticker-like texture

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Transparency

• Transparency explained
• Better Transparency
• Multicolored Mesh with transparency
• FemMesh transparency
• Semitransparent Texture

Selection

• AutoCAD like selection style
• Highlighting the edge closest to the mouse
• Select triangles inside a mesh
• Once upon a time the Entity.Selected property

General

• 2D rotation perpendicular to screen
• Synchronous ProgressBar
• Animation
• Six tips to open an effective ticket
• Version-Specific assembly references
• WebGL Html template customization

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Import/Export

• Geometry Import/Export
• Bitness agnostic ReadDWG 🧙
• Eyeshot file format thumbnail handler
• Eyeshot Proprietary File Format
• Entity.XData
• Reading DWG/DXF (WinForms)

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Third Party Libraries

• Eyeshot issues with Telerik controls
• Toolbox issue with Visual Studio Express Editions
• How to publish an Eyeshot application with ClickOnce
• Eyeshot issues with DevExpress controls

WPF

• Native vs NativeExperimental rendering in WPF
• Enable multitouch on Eyeshot WPF control when added programmatically
• Immediate mode rendering in WPF 🚀
• Enable multitouch on WPF controls
• Eyeshot WPF hanging on startup with .Net 4.5.2

Printing

• Printing in raster with a given scale
• Vector printing with custom scaling

FEM

• Custom element Stiffness Matrix
• Custom material Property Matrix

Current version

• 12.0.520
• 12.0.456
• 12.0.347
• 12.0.245
• Migrating from version 11
• Breaking Changes in Eyeshot version 12

Older versions

• Migrating from Eyeshot 4 to Eyeshot 11
• 11.0.796
• 11.0.713
• 11.0.686
• 11.0.545
• 11.0.433

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Eyeshot FAQ

• How do I correctly serialize a derived class into the Eyeshot proprietary file format?
• Why does the same entity appear to be illuminated differently if I put it inside a blockreference?
• Why do I get incorrect results from the ICurve.Offset() method for certain values of the offset distance?
• Can I have two different Eyeshot versions running on the same machine?
• What's the difference between byPick and visibleByPick selection modes?
• How can I export a region as a hatch in Autodesk?

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Older versions of articles

• Performance Tips (v10)
• Synchronous ProgressBar (v9)
• FindClosestVertex: retrieve vertex inside a Solid3D or Solid entity (V9)
• Closest point on a Solid3D object (v9)
• Curvature mapping for curves and surfaces (v8)
• Highlighting the edge closest to the mouse (v7)

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