Updating Text From Tables

[Chickenhawk]

Hi everyone,

 

My name is Alex and this is my first post on CADTutor. I'm a structural engineer graduate who is currently working on a lot of drawings for a client, we are updating old hand-written drawings from 40yrs ago. I have no formal training in AutoCAD, only what I have taught myself.

 

40yrs ago, everything was done in Imperial and now we are converting to Metric, the issue is that the drawings we have no schedule of members and we (a colleague and I) are constantly discovering new members, this is causing no end of trouble with our numbering system.

 

What we would like to do is set up a master-table with 5 catagories (UB, UC, PFC, EA and UA) and then have the labels for all the members dependant on this table. If we were to change the value in the table, the label would automatically update. Is this at all possible? I looked into the Xref and RText commands and they seem close but not quite there. Ideally the table would be in a seperate dwg so we can work on drawings at the same time.

 

I hope this is possible and look forward to any guidance you may have to offer

 

Regards

Alex

[MSasu]

There is another entity that may help you; please check the FIELD command. I believe that Object category would be useful for your case - select the master text label and chouse Content in Property list.

[Chickenhawk]

There is another entity that may help you; please check the FIELD command. I believe that Object category would be useful for your case - select the master text label and chouse Content in Property list.

 

Hi MSasu,

 

That is perfect! Thank you for that, it is exactly the command I was after.

 

Thank you very much for your time

Alex

[MSasu]

Glad to hear that your problem is solved. You're entirely welcome!