Alibre Design Extensions for Visual Studio

The next update to Alibre C++ API Samples Extension and Alibre Design Extension for Visual Studio will include:

AlibreObjectModel usage examples.
Note: Addons don't support net8.0. I'll include net481 compatible code.

Basic AI instructions for project cleanup and general coding tasks.

Projects are intentionally left rough for you to do your own cleanup and restructuring. They are made to build and run. The intended purpose for all content is testing, learning and adaptation, not best practices.

The entire building process is automated. This will take multiple versions for the output extensions to have better polish and features.

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Publisher stephensmitchell, stephensmitchell - Visual Studio Marketplace.

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You should too. If you’re not, you’re wasting time. I focus on hard problems AI can’t do (yet) and review code.

Keep that in mind when exploring templates.

The Tool Store ->Alibre Design Extension for Visual Studio

Most of the Alibre projects under the-tool-store GitHub organization will be included as project templates. Repos will undergo more changes to streamline the process. The extension is my recommended way to access source code. I'm building tooling for the VS extension ecosystem and plan to add more features and build extensions for more apps.

These are starter projects meant to make things easy to get up and running, not fully tested, production grade coded with best practices. They'll be improved but won't be production quality. Simple addons won't require much work to create a shippable solution. Addons and scripts I made from forum discussions are great real examples of the process working.

Use AI for learning and understanding the projects. I'm removing code comments from the projects. Use AI to comment the code.

Update Alibre DLL references for your system. The projects should compile and ready to go.

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These are the C++ addon samples.

Alibre API Samples Extension - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio - Project templates for Alibre Design API add-on development. Sample C++ projects demonstrating Animation, DirectX integration, and Selection handling for Alibre Design.

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I'm still testing and cleaning up projects but so far, the automated process is working great, repo to extension.

The Tool Store

The Tool Store has 18 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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I unpublished Alibre API Samples Extension, for a few fixes.

When ready the URL will be live again:

Alibre API Samples Extension - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio - Project templates for Alibre Design API add-on development. Sample C++ projects demonstrating Animation, DirectX integration, and Selection handling for Alibre Design.

marketplace.visualstudio.com