Comments on: Update Block Attributes Using Excel

By: Facutom22

Facutom22 — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:19:00 +0000

como puedo pasar una planilla excel a autocad y luego cambiar cosas en la planilla como por ejemplo el layer del texto

By: Borkvik

Borkvik — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:55:00 +0000

Ok. Thanks for the quick reply. Have looked at another way to solve it. I
tried to link into a range from excel with copy and paste method. I
will then have to update data in AutoCAD from Excel. And it works! But
when I try to update from AutoCad LT 2012 to excel by using the “Update
to source” button I get a message;
Command: _DATALINKUPDATE
Select an option [Update data link/Write data link] : _W
1 object(s) found.
1 data link(s) do not allow their data to be written out.
0 data link(s) written out successfully.
How can I fix this?

By: Borkvik

Borkvik — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:52:00 +0000

Ok. Thanks for the quick reply. Have looked at another way to solve it. I tried to link into a range from excel with copy and paste method. I will then have to update data in AutoCAD from Excel. And it works! But when I try to update from AutoCad LT 2012 to excel by using the “Update to source” button I get a message;
Command: _DATALINKUPDATE
Select an option [Update data link/Write data link] : _W
1 object(s) found.
1 data link(s) do not allow their data to be written out.
0 data link(s) written out successfully.
How can I fix this?

By: Borkvik

Borkvik — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:48:00 +0000

Hello. I have a number of different signs (blocks) in AutoCad. I want to count the number of each unique signs and export it to excel? So that I excel can see how many signs I have of each type.
User AutoCad LT 2012How can I do it? (im a autocad newbie)

By: CADbloke

CADbloke — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:03:00 +0000

A couple of points I would add to this blog post is that when you import the text into Excel make sure you set all the columns as text-format so you don’t get things like “1/2″ turning into dates and other assorted Excel formatting weirdness. You can also re-order and delete columns – except for the Handle and Block Name columns, leave them alone. You can sort the rows in any order as long as you keep the heading row at the top. Don’t leave any gaps between columns and rows. Insertion order determines the order of the block Handles. A tip if you’re using arrays to make collections of blocks – make one extra and delete the original one you cloned; the Handles tend to flow in a neater order.

I use a modified version of the attout.lsp included with AutoCAD which opens the export in Excel automatically but I can’t distribute that because it is copyrighted code. I am, however, working on a custom version of this which would automate a lot of things and allow for more sorting options. If you’re interested in this then I may enlist you as a beta-tester. I estimate about 6 months or so until I have something worth testing. Keep an eye on CADbloke.com &/or send me a message on my contact page if you’re interested.

cheers
Ewen
CADbloke

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By: Dom

Dom — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:20:00 +0000

dear Donnie,

My blocks are explicit declared.
My question: Wiht ATTOUT.lsp Is that possible to update the blocks via attin without HANDLE but only with BLOCKNAME?
…… (setq str (strcat “HANDLE” delim “BLOCKNAME”));setq

thank you alot for this webpage

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