AutoCAD 2006 VBA A Programmer's Reference

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.

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.

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.