
AutoCAD 2006 VBA
A Programmer's Reference
Joe Sutphin(Author)
APress
2nd Edition
Published on 23. September 2005
Book
Hardback
XXXII, 744 pages
978-1-59059-579-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book will help you take full advantage of the Visual Basic for Applications programming environment within AutoCAD 2006. Whether you want to automate routine tasks, or create sophisticated applications or design that can be generated programmatically, this book will empower you to make AutoCAD work for you.
This book is also suitable if you're a power user who wants to make use of the advanced features of AutoCAD 2006 VBA, and you need a fast reference for the full AutoCAD object model. You'll learn to run Autodesk design tasks in the embedded VBA environment. This book is loaded with source code examples, and gives you no matter your skill level the necessary tools to accomplish your AutoCAD 2006 automation tasks.
More details
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XXXII, 744 p.
Dimensions
Height: 264 mm
Width: 187 mm
Thickness: 51 mm
Weight
1572 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59059-579-4 (9781590595794)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4302-0069-7
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Joe Sutphin's background includes more than 20 years in the machinery manufacturing industry. He has more than 14 years of computer-aided design experience with more than eight years of AutoCAD-specific experience. Joe is an Autodesk registered developer, and his work has appeared in the pages of Cadence and Cadalyst magazines. He has been programming for over 10 years, with the last five years spent focusing on Visual Basic. In 1998, he collaborated with Microsoft on a Visual Basic application case study.
Content
The VBA Integrated Development Environment (VBAIDE).- to Visual Basic Programming.- Application Elements.- AutoCAD Events.- User Preferences.- Controlling Layers and Linetypes.- User Interaction and the Utility Object.- Drawing Objects.- Creating 3-D Objects.- Editing Objects.- Dimensions and Annotations.- Selection Sets and Groups.- Blocks, Attributes, and External References.- Views and Viewports.- Layout and Plot Configurations.- Controlling Menus and Toolbars.- Drawing Security.- Using the Windows API.- Connecting to External Applications.- Creating Tables.- The SummaryInfo Object.- An Illustrative VBA Application.