topic Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT in AutoCAD LT Forum

VBA with AutoCAD LT

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:52:40 GMT

Hi alls,

Does AutoCAD LT support VBA?

Is there an API to access and manipulate DXF "externally" from .NET environment (C# or VB)?

thanks,

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

pendean — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:07:32 GMT

Autodesk does not make VBA customization available in LT.

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

h_s_walker — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:45:03 GMT

As Dean said. HOWEVER you can run a vb exe program in LT by creating a button with the following in it ^C^C_ai_startapp yourprogram.exe But you need to make sure that yourprogram.exe is in the Base AutoCAD directory.

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:48:40 GMT

Thank you Dean and HWalker.

Is there any API and classes for use in this MyProgram.exe?

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

h_s_walker — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:33:47 GMT

Send me via PM your email address and I will email you a VB6 program I wrote with some help, which draws closed polylines (steel shapes) in autocad

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

h_s_walker — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:35:50 GMT

Check your emails. I've sent you my program

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

h_s_walker — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:47:16 GMT

The other email address you gave me is being rejected. So I'm attaching the zip file here

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

steven-g — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:25:04 GMT

NIce, I'll be trying to figure out how that actually works for the next few months, (how it communicates with LT that is), I thought all external communication was disabled except for scripts.

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

h_s_walker — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:06:55 GMT

Dynamic Data Exchange (whatever that is)

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

steven-g — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:31:34 GMT

Yup got it, I just drew my first line directly from excel VBA, as I said this will keep me occupied for months now. Thanks

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:05:46 GMT

Great !
What class package do you use? DDE? Where do I find it?

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Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

h_s_walker — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:15:46 GMT

Have you downloaded the zip file?

If you have search it for the text LINK. There are several LINKMODE, LINKTOPIC and LINKEXECUTE.

If you find those and see how I've used them in the program you should be able to work out what to do

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 10:57:07 GMT

I want to modify block attributes autocad LT with vba (list of data from excel sheet). It's possible in Autocad (I have programming it and it works) but doesn't work in LT (it doesn´t support LISP, neither VBA) 😞

Can you help me?. Thanks.

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

h_s_walker — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 09:32:16 GMT

Unfortunately not. BUT I would start by looking at the following link which tells you how to link to data from an external source

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/AutoCAD-Core/files/GUID-A2AA87E9-95E2-4C85-920A-96E8A06EB47F-htm.html

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

Emmsleys — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 18:39:16 GMT

AutoCAD LT has limitations and this is one of them.

I'd recommend you for you to leave your feedback here: http://www.autodesk.com/company/contact-us/product-feedback

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

Anonymous — Fri, 18 May 2018 06:05:29 GMT

can you please share Code for me my mail id Vinay.moogi777@gmail.com

@h_s_walkerwrote:
As Dean said. HOWEVER you can run a vb exe program in LT by creating a button with the following in it ^C^C_ai_startapp yourprogram.exe But you need to make sure that yourprogram.exe is in the Base AutoCAD directory.

Re: VBA with AutoCAD LT

h_s_walker — Fri, 18 May 2018 08:14:53 GMT

Check my replies on the previous page you will find all the information you need and a file called steel.zip as well