I am in need of text help

[Anonymous]

I am fairly new to Autocad but working hard to learn. My biggest problem is
with text... large amounts of text. The drawings I make need to show large
bills of materials already produced in Word. I am trying to figure out how
to make a simple cut and paste or something similar. The text must be about
12 inches high in the model space with lines and columns separating the
items. This seems so straight forward in Word and Excel but I can't find
an efficient way to do it in Autocad LT unless I retype it or import the
very limited amount allowed in the multitext editor. Am I the first Autocad
user to need to import bills of material or am I just not too quick on the
uptake and missing something really obvious? I really hate to retype
hundreds of characters that are already produced in an MS Office document.

Can anyone give me some coaching?

Many, many thanks!

cadjim8

[Anonymous]

Hi
In Word or Excel, copy all of the document (Ctrl A).
Then in AutoCAD, Edit>Paste Special and select the option called %PRODUCT Entities. This will have the Word Doc or Excel S/S on the end of your crosshair, to enable you to paste anywhere in the drawing. It also brings across fonts etc to AutoCAD as Text Styles.

[Anonymous]

I hate to say it in this day and age, when we expect software to be all
things to all men, but AutoCAD is a tool for producing vector based drawings
not for large amounts of word processored documents, I've found that putting
a lot of text into a drawing, slows the machine down, wacks the file size
up, becomes difficult and slow to edit the more you add. It doesn't seem as
bad if it's all produced in AutoCAD with .shx fonts etc rather than imported
from a word processor. If there's no alternative method of distributing your
Bills of Materials in your contract documents then here are a view thoughts,
if your not doing these already:

Avoid True Type Fonts like the plague. Use .shx fonts.

Would OLE work instead of cut and paste?

If your duplicating any data in AutoCAD, by cutting and pasting across a set
of 'drawings' consider using xrefs. It gets a real headache to ensure every
change to cut and pasted entities or common blocks used across a set of
drawings is carried out, without missing any.

Hope that helps.

Chris Randall

"J Willi" wrote in message
news:0B422E0B753BFF0275AC03225F239533@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I am fairly new to Autocad but working hard to learn. My biggest problem
is
> with text... large amounts of text. The drawings I make need to show
large
> bills of materials already produced in Word. I am trying to figure out
how
> to make a simple cut and paste or something similar. The text must be
about
> 12 inches high in the model space with lines and columns separating the
> items. This seems so straight forward in Word and Excel but I can't find
> an efficient way to do it in Autocad LT unless I retype it or import the
> very limited amount allowed in the multitext editor. Am I the first
Autocad
> user to need to import bills of material or am I just not too quick on the
> uptake and missing something really obvious? I really hate to retype
> hundreds of characters that are already produced in an MS Office document.
>
> Can anyone give me some coaching?
>
> Many, many thanks!
>
> cadjim8
>
>

[Anonymous]

TRY THIS SITE IT HAS A GOOD PROGRAM NOT EXPENSIVE TO USE. IT IS BETTER
THEN OLE, IT IS LIMIT LESS.

http://www.wfcadtools.com/span40.htm


PHIL

J Willi wrote:
> I am fairly new to Autocad but working hard to learn. My biggest problem is
> with text... large amounts of text. The drawings I make need to show large
> bills of materials already produced in Word. I am trying to figure out how
> to make a simple cut and paste or something similar. The text must be about
> 12 inches high in the model space with lines and columns separating the
> items. This seems so straight forward in Word and Excel but I can't find
> an efficient way to do it in Autocad LT unless I retype it or import the
> very limited amount allowed in the multitext editor. Am I the first Autocad
> user to need to import bills of material or am I just not too quick on the
> uptake and missing something really obvious? I really hate to retype
> hundreds of characters that are already produced in an MS Office document.
>
> Can anyone give me some coaching?
>
> Many, many thanks!
>
> cadjim8
>
>

[Anonymous]

This is a AutoCAD LT forum and SPANNER 4.0 appears to involve Autolisp,
AutoCAD only?

"JIC" wrote in message
news:3DA6D4F5.7020707@netscape.net...
> TRY THIS SITE IT HAS A GOOD PROGRAM NOT EXPENSIVE TO USE. IT IS BETTER
> THEN OLE, IT IS LIMIT LESS.
>
> http://www.wfcadtools.com/span40.htm
>
>
> PHIL
>
> J Willi wrote:
> > I am fairly new to Autocad but working hard to learn. My biggest
problem is
> > with text... large amounts of text. The drawings I make need to show
large
> > bills of materials already produced in Word. I am trying to figure out
how
> > to make a simple cut and paste or something similar. The text must be
about
> > 12 inches high in the model space with lines and columns separating the
> > items. This seems so straight forward in Word and Excel but I can't
find
> > an efficient way to do it in Autocad LT unless I retype it or import the
> > very limited amount allowed in the multitext editor. Am I the first
Autocad
> > user to need to import bills of material or am I just not too quick on
the
> > uptake and missing something really obvious? I really hate to retype
> > hundreds of characters that are already produced in an MS Office
document.
> >
> > Can anyone give me some coaching?
> >
> > Many, many thanks!
> >
> > cadjim8
> >
> >
>

[Anonymous]

Cut and paste from your program is the only way to go. It works best to
paste into layout instead of model space if possible, that way your pasted
document will be the same size as the one in your MS document.

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"J Willi" wrote in message
news:0B422E0B753BFF0275AC03225F239533@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I am fairly new to Autocad but working hard to learn. My biggest problem
is
> with text... large amounts of text. The drawings I make need to show
large
> bills of materials already produced in Word. I am trying to figure out
how
> to make a simple cut and paste or something similar. The text must be
about
> 12 inches high in the model space with lines and columns separating the
> items. This seems so straight forward in Word and Excel but I can't find
> an efficient way to do it in Autocad LT unless I retype it or import the
> very limited amount allowed in the multitext editor. Am I the first
Autocad
> user to need to import bills of material or am I just not too quick on the
> uptake and missing something really obvious? I really hate to retype
> hundreds of characters that are already produced in an MS Office document.
>
> Can anyone give me some coaching?
>
> Many, many thanks!
>
> cadjim8
>
>