Table field linking to alignments and cell formatting

[morrowQA3TH]

Hello, First time on the forums for a question I think is pretty simple; I just can't find an answer to my question easily.

I'm trying to make a table for some roads, and I'd like to link the alignments so that the table can read the linear footages of the alignments and put that in the table. However there is no field for this:

Is there any reliable way to make it such that the table can read the alignment length dynamically?

My second question is that I'd like to plug a bunch of other data in as a type of dropdown cell (Ownership, Road types, B-B widths and R/W widths) and I can't seem to find an answer of how to do this. My overall goal is to have the whole table as dynamically linked to the drawing as possible such that I could change the alignments or corridor and this table will adjust automatically. Some things (like the road ownership) will not need to change likely, so that's why I'd like a dropdown list for those.

Here's the table as is right now:

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

[BrianHailey]

I don't know of any way of accomplishing this without some custom programming. Perhaps @Jeff_M or @TerryDotson has that functionality already built into one of their tools.

[TerryDotson · Accepted solution]

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Perhaps @Jeff_M or @TerryDotson has that functionality already built into one of their tools.

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Thanks for the mention.  As it turns out, we have several hours invested in a soon to be included tool that will take an existing CAD table and allow the user to assign almost any object type (such as "AECC_ALIGNMENT" or "AECC_CATCHMENT", etc) to it.  The table will then automatically add rows for each object of that type, including All, those in a Group, or only those in a Layer.  The columns of the table can be unlinked (such as existing table columns) or the column can be linked to (almost) any property of that object type (such as "StartingStation", "Length", etc) or extended data from PropertySets and MapOD.  Users can still use all the existing CAD capabilities related to the TABLE object, such as column insert, cell formatting, etc.

Early anticipation is that it will be the next heavy hitter in our package.

[Joe-Bouza]

Use a civil3d table. Acad fields are limited to native data.

Project explorer can give an acad table linked to c3d objects and be dynamic. What you can get it to do I cannot speak to. I have used it little