Connecting to the existing ACAD instance

[Anonymous]

'm trying to connect to the existing ACAD 2006 instance from a VB.net project using the com interop object.

I'm using the following code:

Dim myApp As AcadApplication
myApp = GetObject(, "Autocad.Application")
myApp.Visible = True

The code keeps returning a NEW instance of ACAD. I want to tap into the EXISTING instance.

Can someone tell me what's wrong?

thanks,
mark c.
Phoenix

[Anonymous]

GetActiveObject("AutoCAD.Application.16.2")

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[Anonymous]

what do you have to reference to make this work? I am totally new to AutoCAD and I can't get even this little launch code to work.

Thanx