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AutoCad and VisualBasic where do i start!?

I will need in the future to use autocad and V.B to create blocks for 3-d layout models. Is there any good free sites on the web that can get me started or any one amazing book, im kind of clueless with vb as of now. I would ideally like to make toolbar commands for autocad that will allow me to make various 3d blocks in a fast and efficient manner

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1. I'm going to tell you this, Visual Basic is very, VERY hard to learn from tutorials on the web. You need a good book or a school to teach you how to use the program, same with auto cad. I have this book in college for VB: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Microsoft-Visual-Basic-Third/dp/1418836745 I felt like an expert after reading only the first half of the book. They teach you how to make simple games, how to write variables, what programming terms mean, and so on. VB is not used for 3d modeling, however. It's purpose is to make simple computer applications and 2D games. It's possible, but very unlikely anyone uses VB to make 3D models. To do 3D layouts of any sorts in programming, you need to learn a more high end language like C#. AutoCAD, I learned it 4 years ago in a 4 week long class. I hated it, and I can't really tell you what good resources there are to learn it but I'm sure you can find some on the web. I still would recommend a book, however, as AC is something you can really teach yourself that easily without the right resources. I hope that helps. My best advice is to maybe take some community college classes on these subjects and learn them the right way, they aren't necesarrily things you can learn on your own.