Jack_O'neill Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Greetings Earthlings. Way back in the stone age when Mechanical Desktop was king (anybody remember that?) we quite often would link an excel spreadsheet to a drawing to drive the dimensions for various bits of tooling. For instance, more than 2 decades ago I worked for a company that had a machine that bent copper tubing to make 180 degree return bends. it bent the tube and cut the ends the same length with a flying saw...all at a frightening rate of speed. To do a diameter and or radius change on this machine we had to make 208 pieces of tooling. It took some trial and error for about 3 months but we finally got it down to where all we had to do was enter the tube diameter, the bend radius and the overall length in a spreadsheet, hit the button that started the macro and it would update all 208 drawings. My question is this...can this be done in Autocad 2020? We have a bunch of very similar parts that get 3dprinted and every time we get a new one, we wind up modeling the whole thing again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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