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Adding fields to a table - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2024 Essential Training
Adding fields to a table
Once again we're staying in our simpleobjects.dwg file and as I mentioned in the previous video we're now going to start looking at how we can bring actual information from the drawing from the geometry into the cells in our table. Now we've got the rectangle there the circle and the hexagon and we need to add an area into each cell so there's the rectangle go over to the cell that represents its area and double click. So that cell is now ready to have information put into it. Now we can utilize a thing called a field in AutoCAD. In the text editor up on the ribbon you'll see in the insert panel there's field there. You can also right-click over the current cell and insert field on the shortcut menu. It has the same effect. Now you'll notice when I click on field it opens up the field dialog and there's a lot of stuff going on in here there's lots of different fields for lots of different things in AutoCAD. If you go to field category and select objects it starts to hone things down a…
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