AutoCAD 2004 VBA: A Programmer's Reference

ISBN-10: 1590592727

ISBN-13: 9781590592724

AutoCAD is possibly the best-selling computer-aided design software in the world, and while not a Microsoft product, AutoCAD includes Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which allows you to control your programming environment. This book will teach you to run Autodesk design tasks in the embedded VBA environment. And with VBA, you can customize everything you do in AutoCAD 2004!\ This comprehensive guide to the AutoCAD VBA language allows you take advantage of VBA in AutoCAD...

Intended for experienced AutoCAD users, this guide introduces the Visual Basic programming language, and shows how to programmatically control AutoCAD events, layers and linetypes, 3D objects, dimensions and annotations, blocks and attributes, views, plot configurations, menus and toolbars, and security. Four appendices list the properties, methods, and events of each of the AutoCAD 2004 objects. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

About the AuthorAcknowledgementsIntroductionCh. 1The VBA Integrated Development Environment (VBAIDE)1Ch. 2Introduction to Visual Basic Programming29Ch. 3Application Elements69Ch. 4AutoCAD Events87Ch. 5User Preferences97Ch. 6Controlling Layers and Linetypes109Ch. 7User Interaction and the Utility Object137Ch. 8Drawing Objects177Ch. 9Creating 3-D Objects215Ch. 10Editing Objects253Ch. 11Dimensions and Annotations283Ch. 12Selection Sets and Groups317Ch. 13Blocks, Attributes, and External References347Ch. 14Views and Viewports389Ch. 15Layout and Plot Configurations409Ch. 16Controlling Menus and Toolbars431Ch. 17Drawing Security465Ch. 18Using the Windows API473Ch. 19Connecting to External Applications487App. AAutoCAD Object Summary501App. BAutoCAD Constants Reference763App. CSystem Variables807App. DAutoCAD 2000, 2002, and 2004 Object Model Cross Reference837Index873