I am not a specialist in this domain but there is ways.

One-way is to use the Run command in VFP to call AutoCad with the scrip to run in AutoCAD.

The scrip for AutoCAD can then call Lisp procedure to do tasks.

>I am quite ignorant in the ways of all of this so here are my basic questions.
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>I have a pretty strong background in AutoCAD and somewhat capable in VFP but don't know how to mix the two. How do I open and manipulate a drawing from VFP6? That's probably enough for now...