AutoCAD 2004 VBA: A Programmer's Reference

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 2004. So if you're new to VBA programming, you will quickly acquire a skill set to work efficiently. Power users will also benefit from this text, which serves as a fast reference to the full AutoCAD object model. The book also discusses connecting to Microsoft Office products like Excel and Word, and using the Win32 API.

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

Joe Sutphin's background includes more than 20 years in the machinery manufacturing industry. He has more than 14 years of CAD experience with 8+ 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 5 years spent focusing on Visual Basic. In 1998, he collaborated with Microsoft on a Visual Basic application case study.