DigitizerPlugIn Properties

Called by Rhino to determine if the plug-in name should be added to the Rhino Help/Plug-ins menu.

Source assembly for this plug-in.

Returns the description of the plug-in, as found in the plug-in's assembly attributes.

Unit system of the points the digitizer passes to SendPoint(). Rhino uses this value when it calibrates a digitizer. This unit system must be not change.

Returns the Guid, or unique Id, of the plug-in.

Plug-ins are typically loaded on demand when they are first needed. You can change this behavior to load the plug-in at during different stages in time by overriding this property.

Optionally override this to provide a localized plug-in name

Returns the name of the plug-in, as found in the plug-in's assembly attributes.

The point tolerance is the distance the digitizer must move (in digitizer coordinates) for a new point to be considered real rather than noise. Small desktop digitizer arms have values like 0.001 inches and 0.01 millimeters. This value should never be smaller than the accuracy of the digitizing device.

Persistent plug-in settings.

Get the plug-in's settings directory. This is the directory where the plug-in's persistent settings files are saved. This directory will be located in the user's profile folder. Note, this does not verify the directory exists.

Get the plug-in's "all users" settings directory. This directory will be located in the system's program data folder. Note, this does not verify the directory exists.

Returns the version of the plug-in, as found in the plug-in's assembly attributes.