Mastering AutoCAD VBA
Chapter One
Developing a Simple
VBA Application
In this chapter, you will learn how to create a simple VBA application
through a series of tutorials. You will learn how to employ
visual tools to create the graphical user interface, and write code
to execute simple commands. You will also explore the basics of the
Visual Basic environment by using its features to create practical
code that you can reuse for repetitive tasks.
If you consider yourself an intermediate user of AutoCAD VBA
and have already written some successful VBA code, you may want to
skip this chapter-or even just skim over the entire Part I, depending
on your experience. The material covered in Chapter 4, "VBA Programming
Concepts," will always be useful to you as a reference.
This chapter covers the following topics:
Advantages of using VBA with AutoCAD
The AutoCAD VBA environment
Developing your first application
Advantages of Using VBA with
AutoCAD
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a programming environment created by
Microsoft that is built into applications to automate operations. It provides tools that
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