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Coding with Python3

Tony_Gibbs — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 09:27:02 GMT

Is there anybody who can help with providing links to information about programming in Autocad using Python.

I think it is Iron Python I need to use.

Thanks

johnjmbennett — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 06:23:08 GMT

not an expert on programming, but think the

Closest for this if I’m advance steel would by the Dynamo extension and commands.

_gile — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 10:33:35 GMT

Hi,

You can access to the AutoCAD COM/ActiveX API with pyautocad.

To access to the .NET API, you have to use IronPython but it seems to be not so trivial (see this topic).

gleeuwdrent — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 14:30:09 GMT

If you are Civil3D user, you can also use CivilConnection: https://github.com/Autodesk/civilconnection. This enables both AutoCAD and Civil3D API for Python use.