Excel and Attributes

Hello

im sure i read somewhere that you can control Attribute infomation with an external excel spreadsheet.

For example.

You have a project folder. With each drawing having a Title block with attributes.

The spreadsheet will say the client, project etc. This will be automatically updated onto the title block.

You can create a DATA LINK to a Excel sheet and then link the attributes to the DATA LINK-ed table. However this would require a table in the drawing to be referenced. Also I have not found a way to get CAD to link to a cell that contains text, the bright side is that there is software out there that over comes that; it is add-on software and works great, but it is not Freeware/Shareware. There might be similar software out there that is, but I have not located it yet.

The software I found that enables CAD to link to a cell that contains text is “AutoField” by “CADIG”

http://www.cadig.com/products/autocad-field.php

Another way of do it would to use "SheetSets" you fill in the information (Create custom properties if needed (they are) ) then creat field to the sheetset; yes this way would illiminate the Excel spreadsheet.