I asked about generating visual effects in other programming languages through autocad, which dsi mentioned that VB6 can be of help. I have actually made a program of Stiffness Matrix in Fortran , but am not satisfied with the presentation, im looking forward to make it in VB , if any one can help me in mentioning the sources from where i can get hints about working in Autocad and VB6 together.
Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations MintJulep on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
VB6 and AutoCad (dsi ..do reply)
- Thread starter Rednyx
- Start date
The first step would be to learn the AutoCAD VBA. Once you learn how to do stuff there, you can easily do it in VB6. You just have to include the AutoCAD Object Library in your project references.
There is a ton of information in the AutoCAD help files on VBA. Go to Help > Contents and see the chapter on ActiveX and VBA.
There is also a good book that covers this topic pretty well. AutoCAD 2000 VBA by Joe Sutphin. I found it for less than $30.
I am still unsure of excatly what you want to accomplish. If you want, you can send me some screen captures of your existing Fortran results. If they will help, I can link them into this thread so others can view them as well.
Here is a quick sample on how to use VB6 to automate AutoCAD
I hope that works! I quickly scammed a couple of lines from one of my applications.
As you can see, it is not too difficult. Hope this helps!
There is a ton of information in the AutoCAD help files on VBA. Go to Help > Contents and see the chapter on ActiveX and VBA.
There is also a good book that covers this topic pretty well. AutoCAD 2000 VBA by Joe Sutphin. I found it for less than $30.
I am still unsure of excatly what you want to accomplish. If you want, you can send me some screen captures of your existing Fortran results. If they will help, I can link them into this thread so others can view them as well.
Here is a quick sample on how to use VB6 to automate AutoCAD
Code:
Sub Test()
Dim CadApp As AcadApplication
Dim CadDwg As AcadDocument
Dim textObj As AcadText
Dim pt2(0 To 2) As Double
'<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
' Connect to AutoCAD
'<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
On Error Resume Next
Set CadApp = GetObject(, "AutoCAD.Application")
If Err.Number <> 0 Then 'Not Running
Set CadApp = CreateObject("AutoCAD.Application")
Err.Clear
End If
On Error GoTo ErrHndlr
'<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
' Open the Drawing Template
'<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
sDwgTemplate = "C:\Temp\A5-Template.dwg"
If Dir(sDwgTemplate) <> "" Then
CadApp.Documents.Open sDwgTemplate
Else
MsgBox "File " & sDwgTemplate & " does not exist."
End If
'<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
' Update Drawing
'<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
Set CadDwg = CadApp.ActiveDocument
pt2(x) = 8.6422: pt2(y) = 7.1831: pt2(z) = 0
'Insert 1/8" text at pt 2
Set textObj = CadDwg.ModelSpace.AddText("Test", pt2, 0.125)
CadApp.ZoomExtents
' CadDwg.SaveAs ("FullPath and New File Name Here")
CleanUp:
Set CadDwg = Nothing
Set CadApp = Nothing
Set textObj = Nothing
Exit Sub
ErrHndlr:
CadApp.Visible = False
MsgBox "Error in Test()" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
"Error No. " & Err.Number & vbCrLf & _
"Description: " & Err.Description
Err.Clear
CadApp.Visible = True
End SubAs you can see, it is not too difficult. Hope this helps!
- Status
