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Create a table on the fly from Excel data

By Ellen Finkelstein

You can create a complete table on the fly by importing data from Microsoft Excel.

Follow these steps:

Select the data in Excel and copy it to the Windows Clipboard. In AutoCAD, choose Home tab@@>Clipboard panel@@>Paste drop-down list@@>Paste Special. In the Paste Special dialog box, choose AutoCAD Entities and click OK. At the prompt, pick […]

January 3rd, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Drawing, Text & Dimensions | 5 comments

AutoCAD tutorial: Extract attributes

By Ellen Finkelstein

Blocks can contain attributes, which are labels with properties. For example, you can use attributes to attach price and manufacturer information to a block of an office chair.

Once you have the attributes, you can extract them to a simple database and open that database in Microsoft Excel, for example, or insert it as a […]

September 9th, 2007 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Editing | 9 comments