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In what programming language are AutoCAD and SolidWorks written?

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Question added by Salma Fakih , Architect , -
Date Posted: 2015/05/26
Muhammad Shakeel
by Muhammad Shakeel , CAD Design Manager , M/S zeeruk Intl.

The first release of AutoCAD is purely written in C and some parts in assembly ,later extended to C++ , however AutoCAD has rich scale of wrappers exposed in   AutoLISP, Visual LISP, VBA, .NET and JS.

Most probably C++ is the code language for developing Auto-cad and Solid Works.

Ali Mohamed Ahmed
by Ali Mohamed Ahmed , site engineering , شركة مقاولات

I support answer of Mr. Muhammad Shakeel >>>>>>>>>>>>>>Thanks

ahmed shehab
by ahmed shehab , site engineer , DHA Consulting & Engineering Design

Thank you for the invitation and agreed with the answers

 

Faizan Zakir Malik
by Faizan Zakir Malik , CAD Designer , Royal Commission Yanbu

ya i agree with mr shakeel answer

 

In most commom situation, you need to have AutoCAD installed. Once you have AutoCAD installed, you can access drawingdata inside AutoCAD's exe process (in-process application). This type of app can be written in various language AutoCAD supports: C++, .NET languages (VB.NET, C#, F#...), AutoLISP, AutoCAD VBA. You can also automate AutoCAD vir its COM API (.NET COM interop, or classical VB), or any COM-able language.

 

However, if you do not want to run AutoCAD in order to access drawing data, you need to get very expensive RealDwg SDK lisence, with which you can use C++ or .NET languages

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