Excel into ACAD

[gcp310]

anyone out there been succesfull in displaying an excel sheet into
autocad.

i can copy and paste cells into paper space. but when i double click on the
OLE in cad, Excel opens and i make some changes, add some cells.

but when i revert back to the drawing, the additional cells that were added are not shown on the OLE.

Any ideas?

Thanks
G

[CADTutor]

It may be something to do with the alowable size of OLE objects in AutoCAD. There is a limit and this has obviously been causing problems for AutoCAD users because the AutoCAD 2004 promotional material is making a big deal about improves OLE handling and being able to accept larger Excel spreadsheets.

[gcp310]

Thanks,
I thought that it might be the case. in the help files in autocad it did say there were some issues with OLE. Typical, they didnt disclose too much.


I did learn a lot from the google search though. Found a real quick way to enter points in autocad just using cut from excel and past into autocad.

G

[CADTutor]

Do you mean pasting to the command line in response to a point request?
Simple but it works.

[gcp310]

Yeah, i was amazed at how easy it worked.

Thanks

G