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Importing Both Vertical & Horizontal Text Styles Into CAD

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:41:17 GMT

We have an Excel sheet with multiple styles and formatting types as shown in the white PDF screenshot.

I can copy the whole sheet, Paste-Special as an image file (white on the black CAD screen), but when I try and input it as "AutoCAD LT Entities", the formatting goes all out of sync and won't transfer over correctly, as shown on the CAD screenshot.

Is there a way to keep the Excel formatting in EVERY cell and just paste the whole thing over as-is?

Re: Importing Both Vertical & Horizontal Text Styles Into CAD

pendean — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:47:55 GMT

AutoCAD's TABLES do not have all the features from Excel like this and others: a known limitation.

Any reason you do not wish to live-link your Excel document, and work on your table in Excel only?

Re: Importing Both Vertical & Horizontal Text Styles Into CAD

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:26:09 GMT

One thing I noticed. I get close to what I want when I chose "Import PDF", but the lines of text (see crosshairs) aren't separate entities. "15" "A" and "Walk-In Cooler" should be separate pieces of text, able to be moved and shifted into their correct cell areas. CAD is treating it like a Block (all one item) and it won't Explode into the 3 pieces of text.

Re: Importing Both Vertical & Horizontal Text Styles Into CAD

pendean — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:42:10 GMT

PDFImport does not do anything more than a screen dump and generic conversions of items it recognizes as basic core autocad elements.