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Handy tools for worldwide CAD users Tutorial >> How to hot link AutoCAD block attributes to Excel

Open drawing C:\ CADTool\ tutorial\ acad\ AutoBlock.dwg Step 2 In the opened drawing there is already a block named TitleBlock, containing 3 attributes as shown below. You can create any of you own block same as this one using AutoCAD command.

Step 3 Click on CADTool >> Link Block to Excel command from pull down menu Highlight block name and click Link Selected button Click on Browse button

Step 4 Browse to C:\CADTool\tutorial\office\tut02.xls file and open it Make sure Sheet 1 is selected in the combo box Point mouse to A12 cell and click on Update button

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Step 5 Point mouse to B13 cell, highlight DWG_TITLE tag, and click on Update button

Step 6 Drag the dialog box around to show Rev and Scale cell Repeat what you did in Step 5: Highlight Excel cell and Tag row, click Update button to fill up two other Tags REV and SCALE Click on Link button to continue

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Step 7 Click on OK button to continue

Step 8

Click on CADTool >> Insert Block menu Highlight TitleBlock and click on Insert Selected button

Step 9 Point mouse to A15 cell and click on Update button. All attributes info will be shown in the dialog box Click on Insert button to continue

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Step 10 AutoCAD command window asks you to specify block insertion point Point you mouse to a point on the screen and left click. The block is placed with attribute values pulled from Excel

For a block, you only need to Link Block to Excel once and can Insert Block multiple times. In each insertion the block gets different attribute values from Excel if you point its block id to a different Excel cell.

Please check out next tutorial How to update block attributes from Excel
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