Linking Spreadsheet information to a Drawing...

[bot1357]

I know it has probably been answered before but could someone please point me in the right direction. I am trying to link specific information from a excel spreadsheet onto an AutoCAD drawing. I want the AutoCAD drawing to update automatically when I update the spreadsheet.

Thanks
Danjo

 

[SpeedCAD]

Hi...

Is possible with reactors from Visual LISP or an Application in Visual Basic, but everything depends of what you want to do and how. I did something with the two methods...

 

[starry]

Did a search of Excel at

http://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 interesting Excel use for multiple dwgs.

http://www.caddigest.com/subjects/autocad/tutorials/programming.htm

has some tutorials on Excel and AutoCAD.

 

[jbart]

You should check out CADminer (

http://www.cadminer.com),

which allows for the automactic importation (via a relational database system) of Excel information right into your drawings. Other programs do this too but CADminer's main capabilities (info. extraction) makes it my choice.