VBA Tutorials or Books for a desperate new user

[mckrola]

Am looking for a good tutorial(s) or book(s) for AutoCAD/LDD customization. I am assuming that VBA is
prefered by the majority of users over VLISP. Or is VLISP still the chosen language. We have the
need to integrate many custom routines into our system and am looking for the best/fastest way to
to bring us up to speed. I have almost no programming experience and am looking for something
fairly friendly if that is at all possible, easy & quick to learn, and is geared toward those of us who are
programatically challenged. Any advice at all will be greatly appriciated. Thank you in advance.

[Anonymous]

AutoCAD 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference by Joe Sutphin from Wrox.
Cost's $29.95. I got mine from Borders Books. I'm sure Amazon has
it.

- Tom

mckrola wrote in message
news:ef2130e.-1@WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> Am looking for a good tutorial(s) or book(s) for AutoCAD/LDD
customization. I am assuming that VBA is
> prefered by the majority of users over VLISP. Or is VLISP still
the chosen language. We have the
> need to integrate many custom routines into our system and am
looking for the best/fastest way to
> to bring us up to speed. I have almost no programming experience
and am looking for something
> fairly friendly if that is at all possible, easy & quick to learn,
and is geared toward those of us who are
> programatically challenged. Any advice at all will be greatly
appriciated. Thank you in advance.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Using Visual Basic with AutoCAD was out a while ago from Autodesk press,
authored by Andrew Roe. Joe Sutphin's book is terrific for learning how to
reference entities and objects. The Roe book is great for laying out ways
of referencing other applications (Word, Excel, Access) and sharing data
with them.

The abililty to cross application boundaries is what lead me to VBA in the
first place. Learn VBA in one environment (AutoCAD) and you can easily
program in another (Word, Excel, etc.).

If you have time check out some of the software at my site for a variety of
applications that utilize multiple applications easily. There are also
links to a few articles I wrote for another web site that may be of help to
you.

Bud Miller
www.BudCAD.com

"Tom Gilmer" wrote in message
news:ef2130e.0@WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> AutoCAD 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference by Joe Sutphin from Wrox.
> Cost's $29.95. I got mine from Borders Books. I'm sure Amazon has
> it.
>
> - Tom
>
> mckrola wrote in message
> news:ef2130e.-1@WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> > Am looking for a good tutorial(s) or book(s) for AutoCAD/LDD
> customization. I am assuming that VBA is
> > prefered by the majority of users over VLISP. Or is VLISP still
> the chosen language. We have the
> > need to integrate many custom routines into our system and am
> looking for the best/fastest way to
> > to bring us up to speed. I have almost no programming experience
> and am looking for something
> > fairly friendly if that is at all possible, easy & quick to learn,
> and is geared toward those of us who are
> > programatically challenged. Any advice at all will be greatly
> appriciated. Thank you in advance.
>

[Anonymous]

If you have no programming experience, you may need a book to teach you the
basics before getting into Joe Stupin's book. I used VBA for Dummies and
thought it was great. After reading that, Joe's book was much easier to
understand and use.

Mark
"Tom Gilmer" wrote in message
news:ef2130e.0@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
AutoCAD 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference by Joe Sutphin from Wrox.
Cost's $29.95. I got mine from Borders Books. I'm sure Amazon has
it.

- Tom

mckrola wrote in message
news:ef2130e.-1@WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> Am looking for a good tutorial(s) or book(s) for AutoCAD/LDD
customization. I am assuming that VBA is
> prefered by the majority of users over VLISP. Or is VLISP still
the chosen language. We have the
> need to integrate many custom routines into our system and am
looking for the best/fastest way to
> to bring us up to speed. I have almost no programming experience
and am looking for something
> fairly friendly if that is at all possible, easy & quick to learn,
and is geared toward those of us who are
> programatically challenged. Any advice at all will be greatly
appriciated. Thank you in advance.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Note that Joe's book does not address LDD in any way. Neither does any
other book of which I'm aware.

However, once you have come to grips with the AutoCAD object model it is
easy to extend the concepts to the LDD object model.

The online help files are very good and you can expect to do a lot of
programming with the clipboard.

--
Regards

Laurie Comerford
CADApps
"Mark" wrote in message
news:D7B5FBA20316AB2C1F9B1CE4B9D5D0FD@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> If you have no programming experience, you may need a book to teach you
the
> basics before getting into Joe Stupin's book. I used VBA for Dummies and
> thought it was great. After reading that, Joe's book was much easier to
> understand and use.
>
> Mark
> "Tom Gilmer" wrote in
message
> news:ef2130e.0@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> AutoCAD 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference by Joe Sutphin from Wrox.
> Cost's $29.95. I got mine from Borders Books. I'm sure Amazon has
> it.
>
> - Tom
>
> mckrola wrote in message
> news:ef2130e.-1@WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> > Am looking for a good tutorial(s) or book(s) for AutoCAD/LDD
> customization. I am assuming that VBA is
> > prefered by the majority of users over VLISP. Or is VLISP still
> the chosen language. We have the
> > need to integrate many custom routines into our system and am
> looking for the best/fastest way to
> > to bring us up to speed. I have almost no programming experience
> and am looking for something
> > fairly friendly if that is at all possible, easy & quick to learn,
> and is geared toward those of us who are
> > programatically challenged. Any advice at all will be greatly
> appriciated. Thank you in advance.
>

[Anonymous]

Even though the help section of this page states that to post new messages or topics I should click on Post New. Well, I sure cannot find the button. How may I proceed, I need to automate the process of labeling (geodetical) a poly line and create a table with all the information, including TME coordinates, Convergence in both stations and scale factor. Anybody out there can help me.
My expertise is in Visual Basic so I intend to do this using VBA.