A while back, I received some survey data in the form of a comma-delimited text file containing rows of Northings, Eastings, & elevations. I needed to take that information and place blocks at every location in my drawing. At the time I only had plain AutoCAD (I wasn’t using Civil 3D yet). Being lazy, I wasn’t about to sit there and type the coordinates by hand. So I wrote a script! Here is how I did it. Read more »

In AutoCAD 2008 they introduced “table wrapping” (AKA table breaks), as I call it. Read more »

Previously I talked about Linking Excel Spreadsheets to AutoCAD Tables but this time I am going to show you an even simpler way to get Excel data into an AutoCAD table. Read more »

You may have heard about how you can link Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to a table in AutoCAD 2008 and have them stay in sync with each other. It is easy to do but it’s not as straight-forward as you might imagine. Here is how to do it in a few easy steps. Read more »