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Here is a little tip that shows how to modify a parts list to better fit a drawing. Sometimes you need the extra real estate on your drawing for views — not the parts list.
Juan Villarreal is back this month with a very nice routine. Years ago, before there were table objects in AutoCAD, we made tables with lines and text. Often it would be much easie... Read more
Tip#: 4276
Author: Juan Villarreal
Rename File To: TableExport/,TableExport/Original.dwg,TableExport/TE_TableExport.lsp
Tip author Juan Villarreal sends us a super LISP routine for converting plain geometry into a table entity. Before table entities were available in AutoCAD, you had to create your ... Read more
Editor's note: This LISP program was updated to v2.1 in April 2011. The table format is completely different, as it uses separate columns for each unit, and ... Read more
Replace Text with Incremental Value replaces text strings with an incrementing value, very useful for labeling columns and rows in a grid. After loading the LSP file, type Counter to activate the text... Read more
Jeff Smith of Ohio e-mailed a request to create a spreadsheet kind of table by converting tables made prior to the introduction of AutoCAD's Table command. At first, I thought this could be accompl... Read more
Another regular contributor, Leonid Nemirovsky, shares a utility that adds the values in a table created in AutoCAD. Sum Table Values (Tip #1994) is a Visual LISP macro set. Load the LSP file and t... Read more
Field Features (Tip #1978), also from Leonid, explores the field features of AutoCAD 2005. A field is text you expect to change during the lifecycle of a drawing. Typical fields are those data elem... Read more