Using Visual Basic with AutoCAD

Andrew Roe's book provides experienced AutoCAD users with the right amount and complexity of material to start creating visual basic programs for many useful tasks. It is very well targeted to beginning visual basic developers that are already familiar with AutoCAD. This allows the book to bypass redundant and tiresome sections on basic CAD skills and get right to the meat of VB and VBA programming. The sections on crossing application boundaries, while very basic, are especially useful. I would recommend this book to all cad users and managers who need a succinct text to help them begin implementing Visual Basic in their offices.

This book provides a good base for someone starting out programming AutoCAD with VBA. It assumes you know AutoCAD, but have only limited experience with Visual Basic. It provides some helpful examples on exchanging data with other VBA-enabled products, such as those in Microsoft Office, and also shows you how to "drive" AutoCAD with stand-alone VB. A few more complex applications would have been helpful, but it will definitely get you up and running.