
This doesn’t help anyone trying to program ActiveX from AutoLISP. If you’re programming in VBA, the VBA Editor has tools for helping navigate this model or provides a lot of Auto Complete functionality when typing code. And there’s no documentation on the Methods, Properties and Events typically available for this type of programming. Looking at the above image, the graphic of the Object Model contains no hyperlinks. Simply typing “ F1” will bring up AutoCAD’s help and browsing through the developer documentation, you can find documentation of AutoCAD’s ActiveX Object Model like seen in the following image. Now, with AutoCAD’s help now Online, you might be tempted to think that it’s the most robust help you can get from Autodesk. The extension can be downloaded for 2016 – 2019 versions of AutoCAD from this link…. If you want to take a stab at VBA programming in AutoCAD, you’ll need to install the Visual Basic Extension.

If you’e not interested in programming AutoCAD in VB or VBA but do use AutoLISP, I’d encourage you to keep reading, this article is still for you.

Microsoft kept it around and still today, Autodesk supports VBA, a version of Visual Basic embedded within the Application over half a decade later. It was however still available as a separate download for a limited time but that time never arrived. Net based languages so Autodesk pulled support in the shipping versions of AutoCAD years ago. This was supposed to fade away as Microsoft moved to the. Most people may think of this as Visual Basic (pre. ĪctiveX is a framework developed by Microsoft in 1996 which adapts earlier concepts of COM (Component Object Model) and OLE (Object Linking and Embedding).

Object Enablers 2010: AutoCAD VBA module for AutoCAD 2010 family (32-bit) 91MB: : AutoCAD VBA module for AutoCAD 2010 family (64-bit) 91MB.
