Compatibility: ObjectARX and Visual Fortran

[Welber_S_]

Hello, everyone!

I am Welber, from Brazil, and i was started the research in my university in Strutctural Analysis for AutoCad with programation.

I saw wich when i want to develop somehting for AutoCad i need to use "ObjectARX" and Visual Studio Professional (with some language of programation). But, i can't do it work good.

When I finish the instalation package, I see the VS and not find the option "ObjectARX" with the language "Visual Fortran"

Well, i want so much to develop my programs in this language (Fortran) because my teacher develop very good aplications in this language and i think wich him can help me during the process if we program in the equal language.

If someone know how i can program for AutoCad with Visual Fortran, please tell me. I am very lost in this last week in this subject.

Please, forgive me for my english poor. In fact, i am learning now this language.

Thanks!

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Welcome to the forum!

I had not heard of ObjectARX before, but I see that it is an AutoCAD programming environment that uses Microsoft .NET. Because ObjectARX is not a "native code" system, it doesn't work all that well with Fortran. If one can call "unmanaged" native code DLLs from ObjectARX, it might be possible to call Fortran code this way, though you would have to figure out how to exchange data. Intel Visual Fortran does support calling .NET languages, but this is a VERY advanced topic with very little documentation and I don't recommend you consider it.

Do you really need to use Fortran for this? ObjectARX is intended for use with Visual C++ in the .NET environment (and other .NET languages.)