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autodesk, odx and arx/dbx question
autodesk, odx and arx/dbx question
hi,
i'm quite a newcomer in the odx - but it looks pretty close to me as i previously have programmed in arx. i think its a nice idea to make something so close to arx and that does not need working instance of autocad.exe - autodesk provide their dbx library for such purposes, but gives very difficult a licence to use it, i think.
so my question is - can autodesk do something against developing applications with odx? if fully implemented this library will make licening dbx useless.
sorry if it is a stupid question - but i should know it.
thanks in advance.
chudo
best regards
chudomir

hello.
> autodesk provide their dbx library for such purposes,
dbx is for custom entities, so needs host application, that is, autocad.
odx is very interesting. it's no doubt.
but it cannot detach autocad from editing 'your' dwg.
for example, you cannot edit custom entity embeded dwg.
to edit such an entity, you must use the special arx,
only which arx allows you to edit corresponding dbx,
which dbx is embeded to the dwg you want to edit.
so, odx cannot help you for such entities.

thanks for the reply.
and what aboud if i wnat to make a custom file format - this means to override the filers etc.
for example to embed several dwg-s into one custom format.
is this possible with odx?
i'm not sure since their documentation is still not full...
regards
chudomir
best regards
chudomir

dwgdirect will not be able to directly load arx applications, but we are working on a project that will allow you to recompile your arx source code into a dwgdirect application. this will allow dwgdirect to support custom objects for which you have the source code.
i'm not sure exactly what you are intending with the custom file format, but in general dwgdirect will allow you to derive custom classes from our database objects, that can serialize & render themselves. we are still a ways off from having full rendering support.