VB .Net & Acad 20005 Basic Questions

At least you have a sense of humor!

I spoke to someone much more familiar with these discussion groups than I was, obviously, and his reply was... "You are asking the same nuts who were instrumental in putting ADT together. With that as an example, what did you expect"?

Next Auto Desk will try to force REVIT down the throats of their prey... using NASA/Space Shuttle & Nuclear Submarines as examples of where 'Object Modeling' has proven itself. Only prob with that is; we don’t have unlimited budgets and 'Government Employees' with PhD's drafting buildings & houses, like NASA and General Dynamics does... and, have you ever seen what ITT Tech puts on the street and calls a 'CAD Tech"?

I have retained the services of a ‘real programmer’, who also seems to have a much more pleasant disposition than most here, and he didn’t even charge me for the three hours we spent looking over my LISP routines and talking about my ‘vision’.

So, with that said, goodnight kids, and thanks to those few of you who offered some ‘real’ help.

 

So you have done exactly what the people you were bagging told you to do and you have achieved what you wanted.

 

Not exactly...

There's a big difference...

The consultant I met with, is a professional.

' Therefore it is said that when the first thing a vendor (that's what you guys are to your clients) blurts out is 'price' or 'you have to pay me', you KNOW you are dealing with an amateur' - Sun Tzu.

Gnight kids.

 

No one ever said pay me, they said seek professional help which you did and you got the result you wanted. All the people that you have bagged have given free help on numerous occasions to me. The problem was what you wanted is beyond the scope of what the group is for. When you reacted to not hearing what you wanted you instantly put a lot of people off side.

Regards - Nathan

 

My suggestions/answers are:

You can use LISP or VB and you can use LISP to start a function and then continue into VB. But it is not easy or recomended to write some function that goes back and forth from VB to LISP especially if you require user interaction on the command line.

VB is good for some things for example if your routine would benefit from a dialog box with checkboxes, pull-down lists, menus etc.

VB is not able to do some things like easily redefining a linetype that is in use (this is very easy to do in LISP).

Also not possible is to insert a block and have the user interactively select the final rotation angle of the block on the AutoCAD drawing screen with the crosshairs and watch the image of the block rotate in real time (again very easy to do in LISP though).

My VB routines are compiled into a DLL. A few lines of LISP code can be created to launch the various functions built into the DLL.

You can use VB 6 or VB.NET but possibly there are not very many .NET examples available as yet and possibly not much expertise if you run into problems.

You can also create your VB functions as an EXE file but it would be very slow in communicating with AutoCAD. Possibly VB.NET might solve that problem but I have no experience with that as yet.

Greg