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Anonymous
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They said I had to use Visual Lisp. So where do I start?

Hello AUTOCAD 2013/2014/2015/2016/2017.

 

How are you?

 

Fine, thank you.

 

So yes, the company is going AutoCad. We're an engineering firm that does design for the energy industry. Our designs involve pipes and steel shapes.

 

Today I am interested in pipe supports.

 

I want to use dynamic blocks that represent the various configurations of the pipe supports we use.

 

I want to be able to read a list from an Excel spreadsheet, then insert the appropriate db into the drawing at the appropriate point and set the parameters of the db according to the values on the sheet.

 

Pretty simple right?

 

I could do this with VBA or even MicroStation MBE but alas I must use VLIDE.

 

So I have to learn a new language.

 

Rather than dive in and solve this issue by stealing code snippets from all over, I'd rather approach it systematically and learn VLisp the right way.

 

So I'm really looking for advice on where to start.

 

Classroom?

 

This forum?

 

One on one private?

 

What say you forum?

 

Thanks