My VB6/VBA Blog

Xmas Greets to All!!! :), Hello there, Hmmm, its been a good time in office doing some designs and drafting as well for some good projects. The idea came to my mind for reducing drafting time and do it a bit easier way....i developed this tiny program that helps draw plan view and front view of some common I-Beam sections in AutoCAD and i don't need to keep looking at steel table every time for looking out for values of web thickness, flange width and all.....later searching internet i came to know that there exists a much advanced program on the same idea....but we need to pay for using it....and is simply much more powered than my program...but i learnt many things while doing this one....!!! So, here is how my program works....yuppp pal it really does :), 1. The VBA program is loaded automatically each time AutoCAD is started... 2. There is a simple GUI attached which enables user to choose the library of the steel sections.....viz Indian, British.....for now i have just loaded...

hello friends, was just wondering it would be gr8 to make a VB program which controls what is drawn in AutoCAD ...... hmmmm interesting.....So i went through developer help in AutoCAD and finally managed to have a basic level of AutoCAD customization and some VB coding which i like to do... So here is the pie.... 1. Tools used were: AutoCAD2010 and VBAIDE which now we need to download from Autodesk website: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=12715668&linkID=9240618 which enables VBA in AutoCAD2010... Objectives: adding a tool menu in AutoCAD called ICS and put a button as sub menu called 'circle' which when selected will trigger the VB program and i could do some simple stuff in AutoCAD using that VB program... Firstly, how to add a menu in existing AutoCAD window.....i.e. things like File, Edit, View.......Help, Express.....and my own ICS ..... :) For this just give a simple command 'CUI' at the command prompt of the AutoCAD.... window...