Comments on: Update Block Attributes Using Excel

By: Donnie Gladfelter

Donnie Gladfelter — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:13:05 +0000

While I have never personally used ExcelLink, I have known users who have. Thus about all I can say is that I have never heard much if any negative feedbackabout the product. Judging from your feedback, a core advantage to ExcelLink over this method is the dynamic link between Excel and AutoCAD. This method is in fact rather static, but to it’s credit it’s free, and most likely already installed on your machine (assuming you have Express Tools instaled).

By: Page Weil

Page Weil — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:04:09 +0000

While I understand the desire to learn how to code and work in AutoCAD, if you are like me and don’t have time to learn all the details of how CAD works, you find a program that will do it for you.

http://www.xanadu.cz/en/excellink.asp

Excellink may have been mentioned in a previous post, but I found it did EXACTLY what I needed. You can’t use excel to create NEW blocks, but you can use it to change any and all attributes and properties of a dynamic block (except for the handle that AutoCAD assigns each block when the block is created).

Excellink allows you to work actively between the two programs; updating block attributes as changes are made in Excel.

By: Gabriel Ruvalcaba

Gabriel Ruvalcaba — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:16:56 +0000

Hi,
I read your article and I’ll try it,
I have exported attributes for a long time but I haven’t try to update tis attribute values on an inserted block.
thanks

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By: Jacob Eilon

Jacob Eilon — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:33:49 +0000

Hi
I find updating the attributes from Excel very helpful.
I am using Excel of OfficeXP.
I came up with two problems, that I would like to know if there is awaqy to over come:
1. Whenever the attribute contains a quotaion mark (like “X for X inches) I get the attribute in the drawing between quotaion marks.
2. When I open the txt file in excel, the leading zeros of a number are removed. This is annoying as I have to add them by formatting the cells to text and adding the zeros. When opening next time it repeats itself

Many thanks for this Blog
Jacob Eilon

By: Page

Page — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:38:08 +0000

Is it possible to map the XYZ coordinates of an object through Excel? I have a set of data points entered in excel and I want to create a series of objects with one Excel column identifying their X-coordinate, one column identifying their Y-coordinate and, one column defining some text written next to the coordinate.

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Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:05:08 +0000

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By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:26:15 +0000

I am trying to change the text style on a couple items in our title block. I can’t figure out where that is done in a script because the Attribute Editor keeps opening up. Can you help.

Thanks

By: Jim Barker

Jim Barker — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:35:19 +0000

The information regarding block attribute modifications using excel and importing back into ACAD was a big help. I’ve been trying to figure it out for a day, then came across your instructions and was able to make the changes in less than 10 minutes.

Thanks!!