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justcad
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:14 am Post subject:
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How about the book "Mastering AutoCAD VBA -- by Marion Cottingham" how is this book rated? can anyone tell me if it is worth buying Thanks ?
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VBA
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:13 pm Post subject:
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Don't waste your time. I have bought and read every book out there on
AutoCAD VBA and there is only one that is worth buying - AutoCAD VBA
Programmers Reference by Joe Sutphin or the 2004 version. I don't use
anything from any other AutoCAD VBA book - period.
"justcad" <nospam@address.withheld> wrote in message
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this book rated? can anyone tell me if it is worth buying Thanks ? |
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R. Robert Bell
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:02 pm Post subject:
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That wasn't the question.
And Jerry Winter's book *was* worth the time. But, once again, that wasn't
the question. Sorry "justcad", I haven't reviewed the book you are asking
about.
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R. Robert Bell
"VBA" <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:41b84f7f$1_2@newsprd01...
Don't waste your time. I have bought and read every book out there on
AutoCAD VBA and there is only one that is worth buying - AutoCAD VBA
Programmers Reference by Joe Sutphin or the 2004 version. I don't use
anything from any other AutoCAD VBA book - period.
"justcad" <nospam@address.withheld> wrote in message
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| Quote: | How about the book "Mastering AutoCAD VBA -- by Marion Cottingham" how is
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HJohn
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:09 pm Post subject:
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| I have it, it is OK. I haven't use it much though. I would recommend O'Reilly's "VB & VBA in a nut shell" or something like that. It is a very good book, I use it all the time. Also, any book on VB would do, specially old ones (VB 4 & 5), where they explained thing better and are cheaper. |
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VBA
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:47 pm Post subject:
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OK, Robert, here's your more specific answer. If Cottingham had to rely on
her knowledge and expertise of AutoCAD VBA, she'd be in a soupline! As for
Jerry's self-published book, please. What a hack job! I know you [Robert]
can do better than that. At the very least I would suggest Andrew Roe's
book.
"R. Robert Bell" <NOT.RobertB@MWEngineers.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | That wasn't the question.
And Jerry Winter's book *was* worth the time. But, once again, that wasn't
the question. Sorry "justcad", I haven't reviewed the book you are asking
about.
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R. Robert Bell
"VBA" <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:41b84f7f$1_2@newsprd01...
Don't waste your time. I have bought and read every book out there on
AutoCAD VBA and there is only one that is worth buying - AutoCAD VBA
Programmers Reference by Joe Sutphin or the 2004 version. I don't use
anything from any other AutoCAD VBA book - period.
"justcad" <nospam@address.withheld> wrote in message
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How about the book "Mastering AutoCAD VBA -- by Marion Cottingham" how
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R. Robert Bell
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Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:21 am Post subject:
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Oops... I meant Andrew's book... <slap>
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R. Robert Bell
"VBA" <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:41b89dd6$1_2@newsprd01...
OK, Robert, here's your more specific answer. If Cottingham had to rely on
her knowledge and expertise of AutoCAD VBA, she'd be in a soupline! As for
Jerry's self-published book, please. What a hack job! I know you [Robert]
can do better than that. At the very least I would suggest Andrew Roe's
book.
"R. Robert Bell" <NOT.RobertB@MWEngineers.com> wrote in message
news:41b868f6_2@newsprd01...
| Quote: | That wasn't the question.
And Jerry Winter's book *was* worth the time. But, once again, that wasn't
the question. Sorry "justcad", I haven't reviewed the book you are asking
about.
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R. Robert Bell
"VBA" <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:41b84f7f$1_2@newsprd01...
Don't waste your time. I have bought and read every book out there on
AutoCAD VBA and there is only one that is worth buying - AutoCAD VBA
Programmers Reference by Joe Sutphin or the 2004 version. I don't use
anything from any other AutoCAD VBA book - period.
"justcad" <nospam@address.withheld> wrote in message
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How about the book "Mastering AutoCAD VBA -- by Marion Cottingham" how
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this book rated? can anyone tell me if it is worth buying Thanks ?
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Laurie Comerford
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Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:35 am Post subject:
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Hi,
At the risk of saying it every time you praise Joe's book at the expense of
all others you never seem to allow different users might have different
needs. Joe's book is an excellent reference book (after having the first I
bought the second edition and have not done so for any other book), but it
is not written for a "new to VB/VBA" user learning to program AutoCAD.
When I was a raw beginner I found Andrew Roe's book helped me learn to
program in AutoCAD, whereas Joe's book told me what I could do.
Another poster recommended "VB In a Nutshell" which I found virtually
incomprehensible. I probably should open it again now I have several years
of experience.
I can't comment on Marion's book as I've never seen it.
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Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au
"VBA" <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:41b84f7f$1_2@newsprd01...
| Quote: | Don't waste your time. I have bought and read every book out there on
AutoCAD VBA and there is only one that is worth buying - AutoCAD VBA
Programmers Reference by Joe Sutphin or the 2004 version. I don't use
anything from any other AutoCAD VBA book - period.
"justcad" <nospam@address.withheld> wrote in message
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How about the book "Mastering AutoCAD VBA -- by Marion Cottingham" how
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justcad
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Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:44 pm Post subject:
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| Thank you i appreciate it, just being careful of all these books out there! |
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TomD
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Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:03 pm Post subject:
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"VBA" <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:41b89dd6$1_2@newsprd01...
| Quote: | OK, Robert, here's your more specific answer. If Cottingham had to rely on
her knowledge and expertise of AutoCAD VBA, she'd be in a soupline! As for
Jerry's self-published book, please. What a hack job! I know you [Robert]
can do better than that. At the very least I would suggest Andrew Roe's
book.
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FWIW: I like Jerry's book and think it would be pretty good for anyone
getting started.
I'll back you 100% on Mr. Sutphin's book. It really couldn't be much
better, IMO. |
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DRW1975
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Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:00 am Post subject:
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I have Sutphin's book, and at first it seemed to be a bit difficult to follow, however once your at it for a bit (and more comfortable with AutoCAD VBA), things make a lot more sense, and I find it is my main book reference.
I wouldn't discount the online help (developers help), that has very nice mini-routines to show you how little parts are programmed. I found a good way to learn VBA was to copy the code from the help files into the code window, run them, then modify them and re-run, and modify some more ect... until the routines are somewhat complex and may actually do something a bit useful.
Another decent reference is the ActiveX and VBA Developer's guide - put out by Autodesk.
But I find after a little while, the main reference is your own bits of code.
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Matthew Hastings
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Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:49 am Post subject:
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I would recommend reading Andrew .G Row Book, Using Visual Basic with Autocad. This is a good book.
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dhorton
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Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:53 pm Post subject:
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With reference to the guides put out by Autodesk, they are unavailable on the UK website! Anyone know why? Don't they realise people outside of the US develop too.
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