wire from/to tables and special breaks

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I am trying to implement special breaks for my wire from to tables however it would appear its not a function in autocad.  I use AutoCad to generate electrical harness and my supplier requires the from to tables separated as per the images shown.  Is there a way I can have autocad electrical separate tables based on the wire LOC1 code?

Or is there another table format I could use to achieve the same goal? Similar to a wire run list in inventor how multiple tables are generated at once.  

Thank you

[alds02]

In the Report Format Setup, I see there are a bunch of User Post options. Now, I haven't got the faintest idea how to write one of these, but if you do, I wonder if the "Report only selected INST values" could be modified to do what you want.

[Anonymous]

Hi Alds,

Ive had a look and the User post is helpful but that changes the appearance of the post before the next window.  I require something to slip the tables when it goes onto the page the same as special breaks would.

Thanks for the suggestion though.   

[Anonymous]

@rhesusminus  Hi Mate,

I have found a few posts where you discuss something similar to what I am trying to achieve but I have not yet found the answer would you be able to point me in the same direction?

Is there any reason that the wire from to does not have the special breaks function like the other reports?

Thanks.  

[rhesusminus]

It seems to me like a User Post would be the way to go.
You've sorted on LOC1 and PIN1, and when LOC1 changes, you should add a break?

[Anonymous]

That is exactly what I need, it seemed to me as though the user post only modified before putting on drawing though.  If this carries through thats fine.  Do you know if there are any worthy examples of modifying user posts to add breaks as I am also not overly fluent in code. 

Thank you for your time. 

[rhesusminus]

Hmm... It will "massage" the output, before you press the "Put on drawing" button.
It can be incorporated into automatic reports as well.

Well.. Studying the existing User Post examples would be the best way to go unfortunately....

[Anonymous]

Okay, Ill have to take a longer look at user posts.  Do you know why the wire from to does not have the special breaks function as the other reports do?

Thanks.  

[rhesusminus]

I don't know why they haven't implemented that. You could, for example, sort on wire type, and break when the wire type changes.

[JeffatPrimex]

Another option would be to export all to Excel then cut and paste each part into separate sheets and use the Insert Spreadsheet data to table feature. And make sure to pick insert new non update-able table after the first table and remaining tables.

Best regards

Jeff

[Anonymous]

Hi Jeff,

I have actually done this in the past and depending on the number of tables, sometimes takes longer, but its faster for larger jobs. 

[Anonymous]

Hi Trond,

I have not had any luck with this as I cant find an exapmle of a user post that implements breaks. I have looks at the AutoCAD example that come with the Wirefrm2.lisp file and several of leeMacs works.  I still have not had any luck.  Do you know of an exmaple of a user post that can either break table based on location code or break table based on column cells, i.e. if row of column 1 chnages data new table. 

Thank you in advance. 

regards,

John

@rhesusminus 

[rhesusminus]

So, I've spent too much time looking into this. You're right. I'm wrong.
The breaks is not part of the raw data the report generator works with.

So, the easiest way to automate this would be using Jeffs go through Excel option I think.