Merging AutoCAD blocks using .NET

I decided to dust off Visual Studio and write a quick AutoCAD app, this morning. It tackles a question received via a blog comment from Pankaj Potdar, over the weekend.

I haven’t had much time to spend on AutoCAD, of late. Part of the reason has been work-related: I’m heads-down getting the VR/AR track in shape for the upcoming Forge DevCon, as well as spending time on new duties in Autodesk Research. The other part is personal (or perhaps I should say medical): over the last 10 days I’ve made 7 separate visits to the local hospital. Not bad for someone who has lived in the area for 10 years and wasn’t even registered at the hospital (it turns out I’d only ever been there for births and the odd childhood emergency).

I haven’t been going there for fun, of course: the presumed insect bite I found at the end of our stay in Cuba was actually the manifestation of an infection caused by an antibiotic-resistant strain of staph. I’m now on the right (more targeted) antibiotics,…

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