I have a question. I am a beginner in AutoCad. Is there a way to automate Autocad using Excel? An example of what I am trying to do is as follows. I would like to create a table in excel that has certain values for the length, width and the height of a cube that is drawn in AutoCad. Would it be possible for the drawing in AutoCad to be automatically updated if I were to change the values in the excel table?
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See this for starting the AutoCAD application from within Excel. Then you'll need script which draws the cube based on your table. You can play around with recording macros in AutoCAD for drawing cubes to get the right syntax. AutoCAD 2009 has separate macros and VBA, though, so an earlier version might be easier for recording macros.
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