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Excel/Access to AutoCAD

Excel/Access to AutoCAD

Excel/Access to AutoCAD

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I'm wanting to create text fields within AutoCAD whose value is dependent on an argument within a specific MS Excel or MS Access block value (or even some kind if txt file output).  I'm running AutoCAD 2005 LT, but have access to a complete version if needed.

The main idea is NOT to manaully import text into AutoCAD, but rather have AutoCAD look for and import the values from an external database.  

Does AutoCAD make this easy?  Or do I need some extra plug-in or 3rd party software?

I've searched around AutoCAD Help and to the end of the Internet and can't seem to find the direction I'm looking for.  Please note that I am not an AutoCAD guru.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

RE: Excel/Access to AutoCAD

With LT, you will have to go third party I would think. Any custom things we might have would require LISP or VB and LT does not support that natively.

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RE: Excel/Access to AutoCAD

In regular AutoCAD 2000, I've persuaded AC to display cells in an Excel spreadsheet, using one of those borderline magical Microsoft linkage mechanisms.

I never found a way to make it look good.

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Excel/Access to AutoCAD

By which I mean, the Excel text as plotted in AutoCAD looked like an extreme blowup of a low-resolution image of text printed with a dry ribbon in a cheap dot-matrix printer.

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Excel/Access to AutoCAD

Excellink can link blocks and Excel sheets (also in AutoCAD LT 2005) - see www.xanadu.cz/excellink

Vladimir Michl

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