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Title: Mastering AutoCAD VBA by Marion Cottingham ISBN: 0-7821-2871-8 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 16 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: For AutoCAD Novices with Lots of Time
Comment: Yes, this book is for beginners, but geared more toward AutoCAD (and perhaps programming) novices rather than toward those wishing to systematically learn and employ VBA in AutoCAD. This is in contradisctinction to its back cover description, which says "[this book] is written specifically for AutoCAD users." (And the book description in the editorial above is even more misleadling!) Topics and headings are arranged around AutoCAD, not around VBA, as though the subject is AutoCAD, not VBA. In addition, code may reference other code from two or three chapters back, but with needed intermediate changes found only one or two chapters back. Too many such 'goto' statements make this book tedious even for someone wanting to focus his new VBA skills on a particular aspect of AutoCAD. The reader is forced to delve into every chapter in order to gain just one or two necessary--but unlabeled--points about VBA buried within the pages. (And don't expect the accompanying CD to be of any help here. Instead of including the necessary VBA projects--.dvb files--it merely includes the listings in the chapters as text, sans the changes needed to make 'em work!) I'm still looking for the book that will lead one through VBA (with bold references to important steps) using AutoCAD as the teaching environment. If the author had paid more attention to the VBA side of the equation, I'm sure I would have given this book a much higher rating. It would appear that this book (written by a professor) was really designed to supplement a semester course in learning some basics of AutoCAD with reference to VBA. It needs major input from an instructor. It certainly can't do the job by itself.
Rating: 3
Summary: Recommended for beginners
Comment: The book assumes the reader is a novice at both AutoCAD and VBA. This is good, since other books seem to assume a lot of prior knowledge. Certain topics which would seem to demand more explanation, such as a transformation matrix, are left without any. Still, I recommend this book for beginner.
Rating: 4
Summary: 4 Stars for beginners ...3- for everyone else
Comment: Clear, simple code and very basic operations make this a good primer for those just starting. In order to actually write the app you had in mind, you will need much more information( Joe Sutphin's book at least). Even on a beginners level much is left out --- filtering selection sets, DXF codes, classes, .DLL's, the API, just for starters. As a low end intermediate user the book is a disappointment, but I'll keep it anyway.
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Title: VBA for AutoCAD 2002: Writing AutoCAD Macros by Jeffrey E. Clark ISBN: 0130652016 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 10 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: AutoCAD VBA Programming Tools and Techniques : Exploiting the Power of VBA in AutoCAD 2000 by John W. Gibb, Bill Kramer ISBN: 0879305746 Publisher: CMP Books Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: AutoCAD 2004 VBA: A Programmer's Reference by Joe Sutphin, Apress ISBN: 1590592727 Publisher: Apress Pub. Date: 08 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: The AutoCADET's Guide to Visual LISP by Bill Kramer ISBN: 157820089X Publisher: CMP Books Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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