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Jack Foster shares with us his work-around method of displaying Excel spreadsheet files in AutoCAD so that they will update if new cells, rows, or columns are added to the spreadsh...  Read more

Tip#: 3386
Author: Jack Foster
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Published on: 05-Apr-2010
Downloads: 0
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3
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Senior Drafter Fran Golding describes how to link spreadsheet data in an AutoCAD file.

"If you've never tried to link spreadsheets into AutoCAD, you will be surpri...  Read more

Tip#: 3385
Author: Fran Golding
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Published on: 05-Apr-2010
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4
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Electrical designer Paula Jones uses Microsoft Excel on a daily basis, and shares with us her method for bringing spreadsheets into her CAD program.

"The easiest w...  Read more

Tip#: 3384
Author: Paula Jones
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Published on: 05-Apr-2010
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3
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Frequent tip contributor Leonid Nemirovsky sent us this tip. If you have raster images (TIF, JPG etc) attached to your drawings, you cannot BIND them as you can XREF drawings.  In these cases ...  Read more

Tip#: 3134
Author: Leonid Nemirovsky
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Published on: 25-Jan-2009
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4.5
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Allen Rehberg of Florida asked for a program to make changes to attributes of blocks that are used in a fire alarm drawing. He maintains a Microsoft Excel file with all the details of many types of bl...  Read more
Tip#: ALSPSOL0708
Author: Tony Hotchkiss
Rename File To: Tip ALSPSOL0708: ATT-TABLE-UPDATE.LSP, ATT-TABLE-UPDATE.DCL
Published on: 01-Jul-2008
Downloads: 3020
Rating:
2
  Rated by 1 users

Tip 2234: AutoCAD Tables to Excel
And finally, the top tip of the month is AutoCAD Tables to Excel by Doug Barnes. This utility quickly converts tables of text in an AutoCAD drawing to a comma...  Read more

Tip#: 2234
Author: Douglas Barense
Rename File To: Tip 2234: BOM to CSV.lsp
Published on: 01-Aug-2007
Downloads: 5366
Rating:
4.666665
  Rated by 3 users

AutoCAD Excel Interface (Tip #2107) comes from Q.J. Chen of China and is the perfect answer for a topic that appeared just recently in the Hot Tip Harry forum. The purpose of this utility is to tra...  Read more

Tip#: 2107
Author: Q.J. Chen
Rename File To: Tip2107: acad table to excel.lsp
Published on: 01-Apr-2006
Downloads: 4206
Rating:
4
  Rated by 2 users

Save Text to MS Word
Andrzej Gumula sends another clever example of object manipulation in Visual LISP with Save Text into a MS Word File (Tip #2053). Load the LISP code, and type SAVE2DOC (or...  Read more

Tip#: 2053
Author: Andrzej Gumula
Rename File To: Tip2053: SaveDoc.lsp
Published on: 01-Aug-2005
Downloads: 1090
Rating:
2
  Rated by 1 users

Get Excel Data
Jeff Sanders supplied Get Excel Data (Tip #2038), which is a wonderful utility for programmers to obtain data from an Excel spreadsheet. The self-contained utility is supplied i...  Read more

Tip#: 2038
Author: Jeff Sanders
Rename File To: Tip2038: GETCELLS.lsp
Published on: 01-Jun-2005
Downloads: 3073
Rating:
4
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This month's request comes from Fernando Salazar of Phoenix, Arizona. Fernando wants to use attribute numbers from an external reference in model space to place keynotes from an Excel file onto a s...  Read more

Tip#: ALSPSOL0505
Author: Tony Hotchkiss
Rename File To: KEYNOTE.LSP, KEYNOTE.DCL
Published on: 01-May-2005
Downloads: 868
Rating:
2
  Rated by 1 users