help with schedule tables

[greenwire]

Hi,

I need to make a schedule table to display quantities of various equipment in a drawing.
The equipment will be blocked with a property set definition containing 'code' and 'description' only.
The table will display 'code' 'description' and 'quantity'

The problem is that i can only key the table to generic objects, not to the 'code' property, so the quantity ends up being how many blocks there are in the drawing. What I would like to produce is...

Code Description Quantity
01 some item 3
02 whatever 2
etc...

Im missing something... please help.
thanks.

 

[greenwire]

further to this, ive managed to get it working using multi-view blocks, but i'd rather use standard blocks. (mainly because trim doesnt work properly on multi-view blocks)

Block Reference is not an option on the property set definition applies to -> styles

I tried using Block reference on 'object' but this produced question marks.

Any help would be appreciated.

greenwire.

 

[borgunit]

Hi,
I am trying to follow you here. Let me see, you have a drawing with blocks in it. Those blocks have "attributes with your 'code, 'description, and 'quantity Tags? Or is this some kind of attached xdata? You want to find how many of these blocks you have and add them up, and then make a table on screen that shows your Tags as the heading? How am I doing so far?

 

[greenwire]

hi, sorry i havent explained myself better

Yeah, Basically I want to make a schedule table of equipment blocks in a drawing including a 'count' field to show the number of instances of a particular block. Then the .xls file can be sent to our purchasing dept. for them to order the equipment.

The problem is, I can only get the schedule to work with Multi-View Blocks, not standard blocks. So I can either convert all our blocks to Multi-View blocks, or give up on using schedules and use attribute extract instead.

The problem with multi-view blocks is that they dont behave like normal blocks (ie. trim to block etc.)
The problem with attribute extraction is I cant make a 'count' field, and it doesnt auto-update like a schedule.

The whole 'schedule data' system seems massively overcomplicated to me. I should be able to just attach property-set-definitions to anything and produce a table based of them.

 

[greenwire]

Ive managed to suss it out.
Thanks anyway.