AutoCAD 2006 VBA: A Programmer's Reference - Rilegato

Sutphin, Joe

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1590595793 ISBN 13: 9781590595794

Casa editrice: Apress, 2005

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore

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.

Contenuti

AutoCAD 2006 VBA
A Programmer’s
Reference
Joe Sutphin
AutoCAD 2006 VBA: A Programmer’s Reference
Copyright © 2005 by Joe Sutphin
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Contents at a Glance
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
About the Technical Reviewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi
■CHAPTER 1 The VBA Integrated Development Environment (VBAIDE) . . . . . . . . . 1
■CHAPTER 2 Introduction to Visual Basic Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
■CHAPTER 3 Application Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
■CHAPTER 4 AutoCAD Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
■CHAPTER 5 User Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
■CHAPTER 6 Controlling Layers and Linetypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
■CHAPTER 7 User Interaction and the Utility Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
■CHAPTER 8 Drawing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
■CHAPTER 9 Creating 3-D Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
■CHAPTER 10 Editing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
■CHAPTER 11 Dimensions and Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
■CHAPTER 12 Selection Sets and Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
■CHAPTER 13 Blocks, Attributes, and External References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
■CHAPTER 14 Views and Viewports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
■CHAPTER 15 Layout and Plot Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
■CHAPTER 16 Controlling Menus and Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
■CHAPTER 17 Drawing Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
■CHAPTER 18 Using the Windows API. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
■CHAPTER 19 Connecting to External Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
■CHAPTER 20 Creating Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
■CHAPTER 21 The SummaryInfo Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
■CHAPTER 22 An Illustrative VBA Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
■APPENDIX A AutoCAD Object Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
■APPENDIX B AutoCAD Constants Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631
■APPENDIX C System Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
■INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697 v

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Apress
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1590595793
• ISBN 13: 9781590595794
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 743