That is wonderful, thank you. You are correct- scr is the normal script suffix. I use txt (and ICAD allows it) as up to now the lisp files have been edited in Notepad. But when they are made in Excel no reason not to use scr when the text files are correct. I've put the code below in case it helps a...

Hello there, thanks for the update. I am beginning to think your code is fine and the problem is at my end. My only change to your code was to open a file name before setting the active document, but I think it is due to the following point. When I run your code I get the text and not the boxes as b...

Hello, thanks very much for the suggestion. I tried it, and tried some modifications to it, but I could not even get the line.

It may be that I am working in VBA in Excel, not VB.net. VBA does not have try..catch and there are other differences.

But thanks again for responding. I appreciate it.
R.

I wonder if anyone has an idea what this problem could be? If anyone has an idea it would be great. Failing that, if you try to draw 3D solids from Excel, does it work for you? Or do you have a way of doing 3D solids from Excel already? I've been trying to use the excellent code from elsewhere on th...