New Versions
In the last section i was talking about the new and latest versions of various softwares. Each time some new feature is added and and use of software is made simple and user friendly ( At least that is what the makers of them claim!) the new features are sometimes helpful and at some other , they are complicated to use.
Coming back to Autocad (That is the topic of this blog)
In older versions of autocad , the users found it very difficult to insert tabular data sheets. May be an area calculation details in an architectural drawing or material list in a mechanical / electrical engineering drawing.
Availability of an Excel worksheet made the job simpler as the user could copy/paste that in an autocad drawing.
This is where the problem crops up.
Whenever an autocad drawing with an excel worksheet is plotted, it gives a lot of trouble. the data is printed very light, not printed at all or even a big black patch of the size of data sheet is printed.
These problems can be solved sometimes at the time of printing or making necessary settings ( like text colour, background colour border colour , assigning a style etc.)
But the problem is solved in later versions of Autocad. All the facilities of data entry in an excel worksheet ( or Table mode of MS_Word ) are incorporated in the Table tool. Text entry, fonts , managing and formatting cells, inserting /deleting rows or columns, and even adding math formula in the last column or row, everything is available. This has some definite advatages.
1) Easy and convenient for creation
2) No need of using a different software
3) no problems in printing.
In short using a table tool in CAD is much more convenient rather than combining it with Excel or Word files.
So go ahead, experiment and sve yourself some trouble.!!!!!!!!!!!
In the last section i was talking about the new and latest versions of various softwares. Each time some new feature is added and and use of software is made simple and user friendly ( At least that is what the makers of them claim!) the new features are sometimes helpful and at some other , they are complicated to use.
Coming back to Autocad (That is the topic of this blog)
In older versions of autocad , the users found it very difficult to insert tabular data sheets. May be an area calculation details in an architectural drawing or material list in a mechanical / electrical engineering drawing.
Availability of an Excel worksheet made the job simpler as the user could copy/paste that in an autocad drawing.
This is where the problem crops up.
Whenever an autocad drawing with an excel worksheet is plotted, it gives a lot of trouble. the data is printed very light, not printed at all or even a big black patch of the size of data sheet is printed.
These problems can be solved sometimes at the time of printing or making necessary settings ( like text colour, background colour border colour , assigning a style etc.)
But the problem is solved in later versions of Autocad. All the facilities of data entry in an excel worksheet ( or Table mode of MS_Word ) are incorporated in the Table tool. Text entry, fonts , managing and formatting cells, inserting /deleting rows or columns, and even adding math formula in the last column or row, everything is available. This has some definite advatages.
1) Easy and convenient for creation
2) No need of using a different software
3) no problems in printing.
In short using a table tool in CAD is much more convenient rather than combining it with Excel or Word files.
So go ahead, experiment and sve yourself some trouble.!!!!!!!!!!!
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