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Creating and using table styles in AutoCAD

Creating and using table styles in AutoCAD - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Creating and using table styles in AutoCAD

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- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our metalplate_002.dwg file. What we're going to take a look at now is creating a table style as part of our annotation in our drawing. We can add tables to our AutoCAD drawings as well and we can annotate data in our drawings in those tables. Now, what we're going to do is, we're going to create a holes type table. As you can see in the plan view, side view, section view, we've got holes going through our metal plate. So ideally, what we want there is a table that lists those types of holes. So that's what we're going to do. Now, in order to add a table to our AutoCAD drawing, we need a table style. Now, we can do that off the home tab using the annotation flyout, like we've done with text and dimensions. There's your table style button there, you can do it that way, or which is probably a bit more preferable. We're going to go to the annotate tab on the ribbon, there's the tables panel, and we can click on the arrow there. That will also…

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