Can I access AutoCad by Java Code ?

[Anonymous]

Hi, everyone, I want to ask if I can program AutoCAD by Java ? I know how to do it by Visual Basic but Java. Now, I am asked to do it by Java, I am a newbie in Java, so I ask the help from everyone here.....

Thanks

Felix

my email: nfyu@ges-int.com

[Anonymous]

You should be able to do it as long as you can
access com interop AutoCAD libraries from your Java environment. I think you
need to look for AutoCAD.Application.17 and another name with *DB* in the name.
I think the file extensions are *.TLB and should be in either the AutoCAD
directory or the Autodesk shared directories. The ObjectARX download also
contain several *.TLB files that might work. Look also at
axdb17enu.tlb

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Regards from Los Angeles,

Emmanuel
Microsoft Windows Vista
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @
2.4 GHz 3GB RAM
NVidia GeForce 8500 GT 512 MB

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"felix50" wrote in message
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Hi,
everyone, I want to ask if I can program AutoCAD by Java ? I know how to do it
by Visual Basic but Java. Now, I am asked to do it by Java, I am a newbie in
Java, so I ask the help from everyone here..... Thanks Felix my email:
nfyu@ges-int.com

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much Emmanuel. I'll try to do it.

In Visual Basic, I used

Set acad = GetObject(, "AutoCAD.Application")

to get the AutoCAD's handle if AutoCAD is running, otherwise I used

Set acad = CreateObject("AutoCAD.Application")

to create the handle (this means to start AutoCAD)

Really, I don't know how I can do something in JAVA. But I know Microsoft J++ can do it, but .....

Thanks again

Felix