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Inserting Excel Tables into Autocad Civil 3D 2013

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jfletter
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Inserting Excel Tables into Autocad Civil 3D 2013

Has anyone tried to insert Excel tables into 2013 3D?  It worked fine in 2012 but we just upgraded to 2013 and it no longer works.  We get an error message that Excel is not supported.  Is this a new feature or a bug?  Also, our old drawings with the table already inserted does not plot normally.  The table characters print at diffent sizes.

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BrianHailey
in reply to: jfletter

What method are you using to insert the table?

Brian J. Hailey, P.E.



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My Civil 3D Blog

Message 3 of 10
Joe-Bouza
in reply to: BrianHailey

Hi Brian, Is OLE or Data linking no longer supported?

Thank you

Joseph D. Bouza, P.E. (one of 'THOSE' People)

HP Z210 Workstation
Intel Xeon CPU E31240 @ 3.30 Hz
12 GB Ram


Note: Its all Resistentialism, so keep calm and carry on

64 Bit Win10 OS
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klugb
in reply to: jfletter

Can yo post what version of Excel, or even better post the Excel file so we can test it?

 

Bruce Klug, P.E.
AutoCAD Expert Elite Alumni
AutoCAD Civil 3D Certified Professional
Civil 3D 2023.2.1

Win 10 Enterprise, 64-bit
Message 5 of 10
Joe-Bouza
in reply to: klugb

Hi Bruce

 

I'm guessing you have not seen any anomolies

Thank you

Joseph D. Bouza, P.E. (one of 'THOSE' People)

HP Z210 Workstation
Intel Xeon CPU E31240 @ 3.30 Hz
12 GB Ram


Note: Its all Resistentialism, so keep calm and carry on

64 Bit Win10 OS
Message 6 of 10
klugb
in reply to: Joe-Bouza

I wouldn't say that, but I don't get any error messages.

I have had issues with not everthing coming over when I mess with the font size.

 

Excel 2010.

Bruce Klug, P.E.
AutoCAD Expert Elite Alumni
AutoCAD Civil 3D Certified Professional
Civil 3D 2023.2.1

Win 10 Enterprise, 64-bit
Message 7 of 10
Lisa_Pohlmeyer
in reply to: jfletter

I'm using MS Excel 2010, I copy the spreadsheet range, use Paste Special, paste it as an Excel link, no problem.



Lisa Pohlmeyer
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dschuler
in reply to: Lisa_Pohlmeyer

I'm having issues also. 

I'm using MS Excel 2007.  Sometimes my drawing opens up and states that the OLE link is broken and somehow reverts the Excel file back to the previous state before it was modified.  Very frustrating!

It also only plots the OLE object 50% of the time.  I tried it with different printers, plotters, and even the same thing plotting to PDF.  Fixing to have to give up on the OLE technique. 

David Schuler

Polywell Workstation
Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.10 GHz
8 GB Ram
64 Bit Win7 OS
NVIDA GeForce GTS 450
Civil 3D 2013, SP1
Message 9 of 10
Neilw_05
in reply to: jfletter

Have you considered using a table object with the Data Link option?

Neil Wilson (a.k.a. neilw)
AEC Collection/C3D 2024, LDT 2004, Power Civil v8i SS1
WIN 10 64 PRO

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TerryDotson
in reply to: Neilw_05

That is a much better approach than OLE, but if your spreadsheet isn't simple it can make a mess.

 

http://www.dotsoft.com/files/xl2cad-vs-tables.gif

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