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Excel to Microstation
Any suggestion how to use VBA from Excel to generate drawings in Microstation
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Not sure about VBA, but I use Excel to calculate and draw stuff in AutoCAD.
What did you have in mind? -- Brad "Dan Tabla" wrote: Any suggestion how to use VBA from Excel to generate drawings in Microstation and Autocad ? |
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Hi Brad,
I need to read a book/tutorial about how to connect Excel to Autocad. How did you start it? "Brad" wrote: Not sure about VBA, but I use Excel to calculate and draw stuff in AutoCAD. What did you have in mind? -- Brad "Dan Tabla" wrote: Any suggestion how to use VBA from Excel to generate drawings in Microstation and Autocad ? |
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Dan,
I have not read any books on it. I know some people program in VBA for AutoCAD. You may want to check out the AutoCAD customization discussiong group for that. http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/ I did not see the customization group listed there, but if you sign up through a new reader I saw it was available. Basically I learned how to write AutoCAD scripts the old fashion way. I did the work from the AutoCAD command line without dialog boxes, then took he information from the text window and turned it into a script. See AutoCAD help for more on writing scripts and menu macros. A script can be written in Excel in a single column, but you can use other cells to do your calculations to define your coodinates. You can go to the trouble of saving to a .txt file and then converting to a .scr, but I find it easiest to just copy the column and paste directly to the AutoCAD command line. I don't see a way here to attach a sample excel file. If you want to email directly, you I can send you a few sample. Most are civil enginering and survey related. Brad "Dan Tabla" wrote: Hi Brad, I need to read a book/tutorial about how to connect Excel to Autocad. How did you start it? "Brad" wrote: Not sure about VBA, but I use Excel to calculate and draw stuff in AutoCAD. What did you have in mind? -- Brad "Dan Tabla" wrote: Any suggestion how to use VBA from Excel to generate drawings in Microstation and Autocad ? |
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