Are you familiar with Autodesk products, but new to programming? If so, this course can help you get up to speed with the basics of .NET programming, and how these concepts can be applied to AutoCAD. Here, instructor Josh Modglin shows how to work with the AutoCAD .NET application program interface (API) and the Visual Basic .NET programming language to create a plugin—which is a module that loads into AutoCAD to extend its functionality. Josh also shares more detailed explanations of the underlying principles of Visual Basic .NET, and demonstrates how to further develop the functionality of your plugin.

Topics include:
Creating a project using the Autodesk wizard
Creating classes, command routines, and functions
Manually creating projects
Basic .NET functionality
Working with database properties
Working with transactions and TableRecords
Getting a user-specified point and distance
Creating and inheriting a base class object
Creating a window interface

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