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How to draw rectangle in AutoCAD from Excel

January 31, 2021

VBA sample code  to send command from Excel to AutoCAD to draw a rectangle.

  
 Option Explicit 
    Sub DrawRectange() 
        Dim AutocadApp As Object
        Dim SectionCoord(0 To 9) As Double 
        Dim Topbar As Integer 
        Dim BottomBar As Integer 
        Dim Cover As Integer 
        Dim Rectang As Object 
        Dim ActDoc As Object 
        Dim InsertP(2) As Double
        Dim CirObj As Object 
        Dim i As Long
        '****** Launch Autocad application**** 
        On Error Resume Next 
          Set AutocadApp = GetObject(, "Autocad.application") 
        On Error GoTo 0 
        If AutocadApp Is Nothing Then 
             Set AutocadApp = CreateObject("Autocad.application")
             AutocadApp.Visible = True 
        End If 
         ''****Read Input**** 
          SectionCoord(0) = 0: SectionCoord(1) = 0 
          SectionCoord(2) = ActiveSheet.Range("f5").Value: SectionCoord(3) = 0 
          SectionCoord(4) = ActiveSheet.Range("f5").Value: SectionCoord(5) = ActiveSheet.Range("f6").Value 
          SectionCoord(6) = 0: SectionCoord(7) = ActiveSheet.Range("f6").Value 
          SectionCoord(8) = 0: SectionCoord(9) = 0 
        
        Topbar = ActiveSheet.Range("f8").Value 
        BottomBar = ActiveSheet.Range("f9").Value 
        Cover = ActiveSheet.Range("f10").Value 
        ''****Draw rectangle**** 
        Set ActDoc = AutocadApp.ActiveDocument 
       If ActDoc Is Nothing Then 
           Set ActDoc = AutocadApp.Documents.Add 
       End If 
      Set Rectang = ActDoc.ModelSpace.AddLightWeightPolyline(SectionCoord)
           AutocadApp.ZoomExtents 
        Set AutocadApp = Nothing 
        Set ActDoc = Nothing 
        Set Rectang = Nothing 
  End Sub

How to use this program?

Watch video tutorial HERE ON YouTube

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  1. Hi, very intresting thing to create rectangle by vba. But I have a question, how using vba create rectangle with Mtext inside into rectagle and after creation move them or put them in place by my coordinates which are into excel file. For example: I have an excel file which contained 10 different Text, dimentions of rectangle, coordinaties value for rectangle with text I have to put. I gess i need to use some loop for my 10 examples but I don’t know how i can to combined all those things in to vba code. If you can help me, this is will be awsome. Thanks

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