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Print to wire label printer

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:39:12 GMT

Hello everyone, I am not sure if this is the correct forum to place this question or not, but I have a question about printing from AutoCAD to a thermal printer, to create wire labels.

The company I work for is going to purchase a thermal printer to print out wire labels (Heat shrink labels).

The "wire label" text will be from a wiring diagram that I produce.

The thermal printer has a software that imports excel spreadsheet to print from.

So my question is, what would be the best way to get my wiring diagram wire text into a spreadsheet.

I use standard AutoCAD, not AutoCAD electrical, by the way.

I know there are LISP routines that will take your text and put them in a spreadsheet, but I was wanting to know if AutoCAD has some other built in capabilities for this.

Thanks

Re: Print to wire label printer

oscardosanjos — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 02:02:50 GMT

Hi,

Did you already tried to use attributes to do that? If I understand properly, why don't you create blocks and insert into them some attributes with the desired information and after that you extract that data?

Re: Print to wire label printer

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 12:40:10 GMT

Thanks for your reply. That is a good thought and I would probably try it, but it the meantime, I found an APP that allows me to extract the text into Excel. Now, my problems are solved. Thanks again