I am not a user of AutoCAD and i am only using it to try and convert the drawings that i have into an excel or csv format.....
I am running AutoCAD 2009 and the drawings are "tables" per say.....with a generic block template from an engineering company, along with text and the company logo.
Is there a way to bring this into excel for easy formatting as i am not an experienced or trained AutoCAD person.....
I am using Primo PDF virtual printer to convert Excel document into PDF format. However, every time I attempt to do this, PS Elements 10 opens and imports the document. How can I turn this off?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to figure out a way to do the following:
I have several drawing files in DWG. Each DWG has a block placed in a drawing sheet. The block contains attributes which would like to link to an Excel file.
Then if I update the attribute in the drawings this would change the linked attribute in the Excel file, and vice versa.
Note that there are several drawings which I would like to handle in a single Excel file.
I'm using Office 2010 and AutoCAD 2014.
When I copylink a layout into Excel, there are no cropping handles.
I need to be able to embed the drawing into excel, then be able to crop it.
I want iLogic to look up todays date in an excel file and then pull information from that row.
The problem I have is that it doesn't seem to like / or - so I am not sure how to format the date.
How would I format my date in Excel so that it matches the wway Inventor stores it in iproperties>Project>Creation Date?
Inventor 2013
DwgNum = iProperties.Value("Custom", "Dwg Number")Client = iProperties.Value("Project", "Vendor")Description = iProperties.Value("Project", "Description")DrawingType = iProperties.Value("Custom", "Drawing Type")author = iProperties.Value("Summary", "Author")Date2 = iProperties.Value("Project", "Creation Date")i =
[Code] .........
Seen this message in any of your drawings working in an sdf format.
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My sales department wants to be able to create drawings based on entries in selected in their Excel qouting tool. Basically, they want to configure a product in the field, and be able to show the customer the drawing with TrueView. (They don't have AutoCAD installed).
I would think the best I can do, is manipulate a .dxf file based on their selections but that may get very complicated.
I am using AutoCAD Mechanical 2013. (Full version).If there is SLD with different HP rating, tag names and different cable ferrule numbers, and if there is any small change in HP rating of motor or small change in tag name, then it is time consuming work for me to go to AutoCAD and change the text by referring Excel sheet.
Is there any way to link excel sheet to AutoCAD drawings? So i can take updated excel sheet and link it with AutoCAD and if there is any change in excel sheet then it will be updated in CAD file as well.If there is any setting or grid referencing to be made. I am ready to do the required changes to meet my requirement.
I know you can insert an Excel spread sheet into the general table and have that show up on the drawing, but it has limitations to it that Excel gives you. My question is there a way to bring the Excel spread sheet into the drawing that would give you Excel functionality?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have LT 2012. I use Excel 2010 into my drawings to set up tables. When I opened the drawing I've been working on, I had lost all of yesterday's data. Command History shows dozens of these notations, "AcDbLine(41859) XData Handle Unknown, Null" In Help it says you can no longer turn handles off, so it should be ON. How can I point the drawing to my Excel data?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've started using tables linked to excel files for drawing index on cover sheets. My problem is when I delete or add lines on my excel sheet it changes the format on some of the cells changing font size and justification on some cells of my table. The changes to my table seems random.
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I have sent drawing out but lost images, also i sent drawing out zipped up with folder with photos. Using relative path, i still cant get it to work. What is correct method to insert images into a drawing so they are bound in? is there a way.
I have load schedule drawing with OLE object (as excel image with out any link) . I want to make some changes in this load schedules. so what should I do to make the changes as I want.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am new to autocad, i wanted to know if i can convert 2d drawings to 3d ?. I work in the aluminum openings industry making doors and windows, i have all my aluminum profiles drawing in 2d.dwg and i want to convert it to a 3d model and then extrude it for a certain length so that it look like an aluminum profiles bars ?
View 7 Replies View Relatedsuppose i make one file in excel i put N:5200000.000 E:5210426.00 in excel now i want to convert it in auto cad same orignal cordinate then i make one CAD Drawing.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to convert a PDF to a DWG format??
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I'm hoping that this is possible, since opening a 2007 format DWG in a newer AutoCAD already tells you that it's an older format in the command line, and files can already be opened as read only.
I am currently trying to make my AutoCad more powerful as a tool of Engineer but not Draftmen (My boss never thing about it, I could only get a standard AutoCAD, not AutoCAD-EMP).
I want to make it a tool for myself to analysis the building system, with excel (and VBA)
The first tool I wanted to create is an underground drainage capacity analysis tool. But I meet the first difficulty, how can I automatically transfer the information inside CAD drawing to the excel?
Say, There is a drainage system with 2 manhole and 1 pipe,
the Manhole have 3 attribute : Name, Model, Level, (and the X-Y coordination),
I Create a Block with attribute "Name ; Model ; Level".
and then I insert the Blocks and place it in correct location inside the Layout Plan.
How can I create some script to "Scan" all Block inside the drawing and make an excel file with data like:
Block-Serial, X-Coor, Y-Coor, Rotated Angle, Name, Model, Level.
I need to put my 3d model on a piece of paper, so I need to have annotate and different views (FRONT and/or TOP and/or Right) of the model.
I tried to use FLATSPOT command, but all annotations (dimensions) are gone. Also, is there any easy way to do annotations?
I am trying to convert scales of drawings and photocopies.I'd like to transfer a 2200mm line which is on an A3 sheet at 1:100 to an A4 sheet which is a photocopy of a drawing that was originally A3 at 1:100.
What scale rule should I use to draw the representation of the original 2200mm line on the A4 photocopy?
I have not done much isometric work for quite a few years now but i have a new company i am doing some freelance stuff for and the last in house person did all his drawings as isometrics. My problem is not working in isometric but when I switch to paper space..how do I convert those isometric drawings to regular 2d?...this might be basic stuff for some but like I said I haven't done this in quite some time.
They are using AutoCadLT 2005 & Building systems MEP...I usually use AutoCad 2000 at home.
i am useing vb.net 2010
Dim AcadApp As Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.AcadApplication
Dim acaddoc As Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.AcadDocument
AcadApp = GetObject(, "Autocad.Application")
acaddoc = AcadApp.ActiveDocument
Dim DD As Double
DD = acaddoc.GetVariable("tdcreate")
how to convert DD value to date and time format
I am trying to convert a dwg to eps format for use with Adobe Illustrator. I've tried exporting as eps and using conversion software but the output is incomplete and of poor quality with both these options.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've got a beast of a CAD file that needs to be converted to something more easily manageable on a computer when opened. It's a 17mb file. There's not much to it, just circles with a solid hatch fill. I've been trying to open it on my computer as I'm typing this thread. My answer for now would be to remove the hatch and re-save the file.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have an MS Word 2011 document with an Excel pie chart embedded.Double-clicking the pie chart will open it in Excel 2011.Copying/pasting the chart into Illustrator CS6 results in an uneditable bit image.
Previously, with Word 2008 and Illustrator CS2, this worked perfectly. Mind you, I had tons of excess empty paths and such to scrape out, but still, after a couple of minutes' scraping, I had an editable .ai file ready to be cleaned up, captions typeset, and colors edited for export to .eps and placement in InDesign
In fact, right now I've had to jump over to my old iBook G4 to open my old copies of Word 2008 and Illustrator CS2 in order to do this so I can get this job out the door.Is there any way at all that I can get an Excel 2011 pie chart into Illustrator CS6 as a vector image?
I've tried the shift-click on "Copy Picture" method, but the pie chart still appears as a bit image, and the text is turned to gibberish. Saving the chart as a pdf returns the same results.
At this point in the project, asking for the raw data set and regenerating the pies in Illustrator isn't an option -- and besides, I've had to do that before. Oh, the pain.
I am user of Corel DRAWing program. I'm trying to save in . pec format big text after converting into curves.
There are many striches: near 34000. And saving don't work? the program unresponsable.
Little text: near 15000 striches may be saved. What i must do to save big text in .pec format