Mail-merge type feature in AutoCad LT?

[PAugust]

My company supplied a large system that contains over 200 parallel circuits where the only difference between circuits are "in" and "out" connector pin numbers. My customer wants me to create separate wiring diagrams for each separate circuit. I could manually create these 200 separate drawings, but is there a method in Autocad LT to perform a mail-merge type function, where Autocad will automatically plot a separate instance of the diagram for each row of data from a spreadsheet of connector pin number data?

 

[twlincoln]

If you layer each circuit individually then you can simply plot the individual layer's content (plus any common items/objects eg: titleblock)...

Layer States can also help being able to quickly restore and plot using a script (ASCII file with a .SCR extension) using -LAYER (and it's stAte option) and -PLOT (note the leading hyphen.

The other thing you can think about is plotting to DWF (with the individual layers for each circuit) and then they would have a viewable file nd be able to view individual circuits by simply turning them on/off one at a time.

- Tracy

PS I would make sure that each layer contained a note in the same spot (like a title or label describing the layer/idividual circuit being displayed) on that same layer... will help to make sense when viewing them individually.