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autocad2004 vba trying to create an arc using center point , start point , and total angle can someone please help with the commands for doing this thanks

For whatever reason I am having trouble figuring out how to round numbers from a decmial format to fractions Are there any vba scripts that will do this ? I have several programs that i need to do this with. guess i am brain dead on this one.....

I changed the way I was going to do this What I did was create a master of the filter assembly then i used attributes for the fields that i want to fill in this seems to be working fine just need to get the rounding of the numbers done right now they are spending about an hour to create this...

Thanks for reply What i have is a master drawing that i have created. The drawing is not to scale. I went in and explode all the dimensions then i created attributes for the text so now i have attributes for all the dimensions that i can replace when values that i calc in my program the...

I would like to know how i can format a text string like 3.877 to be 3 7/8 looking to round to the nearest #/16 thanks in advance

thanks for reply they are both mtext and text

acad2004 - vba I want to be able to replace text strings in a drawing I have written a program which calcs perameters for a drawing the drawing is not to scale so all i am trying to do is replace items with the calced value Private Sub cmdCreatePart_Click() xxx = Replace("DimA", DimA, XX) End...

I have a program which draws a part based on user inputs What i need to do is start a new drawing when the draw button is toggled right now you have to start a new drawing before running the program any ideas ? thanks in advance

I was calling an ACAD2006 ref.....my bad

does anyone see a problem with this sub i am getting the following error object library feature not supported we are using ACAD2004 Sub DrawAlignedDimension() StartPoint(0) = 0 StartPoint(1) = 0 StartPoint(2) = 0 EndPoint(0) = -txtXDIM EndPoint(1) = 0 EndPoint(2) = 0 SetTextPosition_horz...

thanks to all the examples gave me exactly what i needed

after a block is inserted I want to explode it. not sure of code to do this just need the line to explode it... any ideas

Guess I answered my own question... textposition does control final location of text. now another question How can i use the dimension setting that are currently saved with the drawing ?

Thanks for the reply I am in model space I did get the dimensioning to work but how can i control where the dimension line will be ? Is this the TextPosition ?

I am trying to add a linear dimension to a drawing and i am having trouble figuring out the parematers for adding a linear dimension any examples would be much appricated..