Did a search of Excel at www.caddepot.com, got many:
http://www.caddepot.com/cgi-bin/dcd/dcd.cgi for AutoBlock for various versions of Autocad. It has hot-links and real-time update.
Also Excellink LT for Acad LT is here.
And Excellink 2000 & 2004 have bidirectional hotlinks.
Office2Cad has an...
There are plenty of 3rd party utilities to create a BOM or parts list from a database. Search the Autocad and AutoLisp library sites. Here are some Google.com search results on commercial offerings:
http://www.lonehill.com/Aimasoft.htm#BOMLink
http://www.pedyn.com/access/bom.htm...
This was found on a previous question about rendering and shading for an image of a 3D object:
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Assuming you are using ACAD 2000, you are forgetting that this cannot be done. You must apply materials to the solids, add lights, and render. If all you...
Found this at the bottom of: http://www.vbdesign.net/expresso/archive/topic/840.html
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;;acadobject is the ActiveX component of the AutoCad instance
;;acadpref is the...
Can you make a rendered 3D image showing the solid object, lighted and shaded the way you wish, from the viewpoint you wish? Then you could capture that image in a Window and use the bitmap or Windows metafile in a graphics program to edit away the frame around the image, just leaving the image...
You can do this by snapping to the apparent intersections of the cutting line and the wireframe lines.
Make a viewpoint above the wireframe object, so that you are looking down at where the cut will be. You will be viewing the cutting plane as an edge line, if it was there.
Set the elevation (Z...
You can plot in sections on standard paper and assemble a long sheet.
First determine the printer calibration:
Draw an accurate linear reference line in two directions (X and Y) on a blank drawing. Plot to full size, 1=1 to a regular sheet in your printer. Check with an engineers scale for...
