Door Schedule Help

[cmorg123]

so i need some help

 

im doing some asbuilting for a company and the only door schedules i for the building im working on are on a cd with 658 individual word documents each file shows a schedule for a perticular room. my boss wants them done as a table in auto cad all on one sheet. is there a easy way to accomplish this

 

currently my idea was to gut a door shcedule from another building that is in autocad form and use that as a template.

 

or we could start a new excell file and ole it inot autocad

 

are there any better solutions

[ReMark]

No, there is not going to be an easy way to do this. You've got your work cut out for you no matter what your decision. Your boss says he wants the final form to be in AutoCAD. I think your two choices would be:

 

HOLD THE PRESSES.

 

You're using LT to do this? Tell me, does 2009 LT support tables?

[cmorg123]

yes it does allow you to ole an excell file but, my boss does not want to do that because you would have to keep the excell file with the drawing file

 

he wants this schedule to be similar to the other schedule we found for another building on the campas.

 

AKA lines and text. This is going to be a challange/ tedious

[ReMark]

"...yes it does allow you to ole an excell (sic) file..."

 

Maybe I wasn't clear. Does AutoCAD 2009 LT have the ability to create Tables? Yes / No.

 

If the answer is yes then at least some of the drudgery of creating the table is minimized. If the answer is no then you have much more work ahead of yourself.

 

In the full version of AutoCAD 2008 and above the ability to have two way communication between AutoCAD and Excel is an added bonus. Change a cell in AutoCAD and it will automatically make the change in your Excel file. Change it in Excel and AutoCAD is automatically updated.

 

I suppose you could try going from Word to Excel (depending on how the information was set up) but I don't know enough about the process to offer any worthwhile advice. Sorry.