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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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