Fill-in-the-dimension drawings

[JStephen]

We have a number of drawings where the same basic drawing (not drawn to scale) can be used over and over by just changing text items and by changing dimension text. The required dimensions can be generated by spreadsheet. What is the most efficient way to work this?

 

[hendie]

use attributes for anything that needs changed on insertion. Then use VBA or Lisp to automate the process so you don't have to manually type anything in.

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[IFRs]

If the answers are generated by Excel then format the answers and copy/paste into AutoCAD. The OLE links work great! In the drawing, use "A", "B", "Length", "Height" etc as the text in the dimensions and use the same for column headings in Excel. Keep Excel open when you are doing this. In AutoCAD you can always open up the mini spreadsheet in Excel, edit it and when you close Excel the changesa re in AutoCAD.