Presenting Jerry Winters - A Cybertek Exclusive!

Course Description:

This hands-on programming class, taught by Jerry Winters, introduces the VBA programming environment to AutoCAD users. This class will familiarize students with the Visual Basic Language and lay the foundation for automating repetitive tasks and performing calculation-intensive operations in AutoCAD through VBA programming. Students will see numerous real-world applications that show the power of VBA and VB customization of AutoCAD.

The first two days of the class will cover the VBA programming language syntax, the environment, and how to execute AutoCAD commands through VBA programming. Day 3 of the class expands on the basic commands and introduces more advanced VBA programming constructs. Day 4 will pull it all together as students create a project from start to finish.

 

The textbook used in the class (AutoCAD VisualBasics VBA - A guide for Non-Programmers) was written by instructor Jerry Winters from VB CAD. Students will keep the textbook and will have access to all of the source code examples in the book and taught in class. Candidates for this class must be familiar with AutoCAD. Prerequisites include extensive knowledge of AutoCAD 2000x. Experience in AutoLISP programming, or other programming languages, is helpful, but not required.

Who Is Jerry Winters?:

Jerry Winters began using and customizing AutoCAD in 1988. When AutoCAD R14 shipped and included Visual Basic support Jerry was thrilled and immediately began re-creating programs that he once had written in AutoLISP. Over the years Jerry has written many VBA programs to perform calculations, extract data from drawings, verify information contained in drawings, create drawings, automatically open and plot drawings, etc.

Jerry is a Certified AutoCAD Instructor (ACI) and is Microsoft Certified in Visual Basic. He is the author of numberous VBA books:

 

VBA for AutoCAD 2006 - A Guide For the Non-Programmer (coming soon!) 

VBA for AutoCAD 2005 - A Guide For the Non-Programmer 

VBA for AutoCAD 2000 - A Guide For the Non-Programmer

VBA for AutoCAD R14

Excel VBA for AutoCAD

Jerry is a consultant to the Autodesk Corporation and teaches VBA programming to Autodesk personnel. In addition, Jerry teaches Visual Basic for AutoCAD Applications at Autodesk University. His Autodesk University classes include "Integrating AutoCAD with Microsoft Office" and "VBA for the Internet."

 

Course Length: 4 days

VBA Essentials is the first three days of this class (Tuesday through Thursday) and then there will be an fourth day day which is a project day. During this project day students will bring in actual tasks that they want to accomplish with their newly found VBA skills. Working with Jerry throughout the day they will receive his personal attention so that they can leave with a finished project ready to implement in the workplace. Talk about impressing your boss!!

 

Introduction to Visual Basic

•  VB vs VBA
•  Controls, Forms, and Properties
•  Events, Methods, Variables
•  VB Constructs

  • Logical Statements
  • Looping
  • Numbers and Strings
  • Functions and Procedure
•  User Interaction

The AutoCAD Connection

•  Model Space Vs Paper Space
•  Executing AutoCAD Commands in VB
•  Blocks, Layers
•  AutoCAD Entities

Putting it all Together

•  Building your first Project
•  Review
•  Project examples
•  Syllabus for AutoCAD Advanced Project Lab