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    Estimating quiantities of beams, columns or elements of engineering in autocad?

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    08-18-2012 08:50 AM

    Is there any program to automatically calculate the amounts of beams, columns or elements of engineering in autocad?

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    Re: Estimating quiantities of beams, columns or elements of engineering in autoc

    08-19-2012 04:59 AM in reply to: aproaching

    Hi,

     

    is command _DATAEXTRACTION (>>>details<<<) what you are looking for?

     

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    Re: Estimating quiantities of beams, columns or elements of engineering in autoc

    08-19-2012 03:27 PM in reply to: aproaching

    AutoCAD can do this natively.

     

    Learn how to set up blocks with attributes.

     

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