Tables

[wannabe]

Not my favourite aspect of the CAD process, but useful none the less.

 

Preamble aside, I'd like to know if anyone has experience the "Repeat Top Labels" property of tables not working?? They are only showing up in the first (to the left) set of rows.

 

However, it's working fine on one of my tables, but not the other two.

 

Anyone?

[dbroada]

is this where you split a long table into several shorter ones? If so I couldn't get it to work the one time I tried. I had to download a service release to get the table to format to size correctly but could never get the heading to work.

 

Life's too short to spend a long time getting AuoCAD to behave how I want it to so I did what I usually do. I just gave up trying.

[ammobake]

I always create my tables using Microsoft Excel. I then usually just copy the cell range in excel I want to show in autocad, copy, and then "paste special" in autocad as an excel spreadsheet.

 

Then when i send my drawings out to the customer I etransmit all the files to a zip folder including the original excel document with all the information in case they don't have autocad but want to change the content of the table, itself.

 

The only problem with doing it this way is that after you insert the excel spreadsheet you can't edit it. If you double click on the inserted excel spreadsheet in autocad, it will create a NEW excel document that you would need to edit anyway and then reinsert with autocad. Hence, you can only change the table by editing it in excel and then re-inserting it. Autocad doesn't really treat attached excel spreadsheets like XREF's. Where you can edit the original file and it will be changed in the drawing. This is the only down side.

 

But it does save a little bit of hastle. I just find excel much easier to use than autocad when it comes to doing tables for things like as-built electrical circuit layouts. You just have to be sure that the excel document is correct before you insert it.

 

-ChriS

[wannabe]

Okay, thanks for the comments.

 

Life is definitely too short, so I copied the table, exploded it and manually added the column headers onto each part of the table.

 

The problem was, I manually deleted the top row of the table, which is the title. So therefore, there was no top row to copy.

 

I couldn't see an option in the tables menus anywhere that allows me to cut off the title row prior to table insertion..or in the table style.

 

Does anyone know how to do this prior to inserting the table>?

[wannabe]

Since my thread title was quite general I wont bother to create a new thread for the following:

 

Is it possible to make all data extractions update at minimum before a drawings closes, at best as soon as an object whose properties are contained in the table is amended?

 

Basically, I've got a table of coordinates for blocks in my drawing. Whenver I need to move a block I need the data link to automatically update as opposed to me manually having to do it.

 

 

I've set the DATALINKNOTIFY variable to 2, but still, I can move blocks, open and close drawings and have no prompts to update the table.

 

The goal here is robustness.