Excel

Dynamically Combine AutoCAD Data Extraction Tables with Excel Tables

by Donnie Gladfelter on April 28, 2010

Anyone who follows me on twitter got a heads up about this post yesterday. Ever since its introduction in 2008, Excel table linking has been one of my favorite features inside AutoCAD. Likewise, it seems I’m not alone with that notion, as my posts discussing AutoCAD and Excel interoperability are consistently some of my post [...]

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Update Block Attributes Using Excel

by Donnie Gladfelter on March 12, 2008

in AutoCAD

My post titled “Quickly Link Excel Tables to AutoCAD” from last August continues to be one of my most popular posts to date. As a result I have received a number of e-mails from readers such as you asking about other ways to link Excel data with AutoCAD data. A popular variation has been asking [...]

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Creating Script Files with Excel

September 18, 2007

Script files seem to be one of the many forgotten frontiers of AutoCAD. “Back in the day” I knew of many CAD users who couldn’t go a day without running a script file or two. These days – not so much. Even still, the trick of yesterday can still help solve many tedious and mundane [...]

Quickly Link Excel Tables to AutoCAD

August 15, 2007

Since being posted back in April my post titled Linking Excel and AutoCAD with Data Links has been one of the most visited pages here on The CAD Geek Blog. In that post I go through what I will call the manual way of linking an Excel table to AutoCAD. Thus unless you are a [...]

Linking Excel and AutoCAD with Data Links

April 13, 2007

Arguably the most valuable tool in the modern-day engineer’s toolbox is Microsoft Excel. People love Excel so much that after its launch in 1985 Microsoft redesigned the rest of the Microsoft Office programs to look more like it. Microsoft Excel’s dominance is undoubtedly tied to its flexibility. After all, I think it’s fair to say [...]