Can I copy drawing tables between sheets

[mark.ezell]

Hi All,

I am working on a multi sheet drawing package and created a table for my revision block. Now I want to copy it from sheet to sheet preserving the header and column widths so that they are uniform. Can I do this? Command-C doesn't work, right clicking doesn't work. I would rather not have to create another new table on each sheet.

Mark-

[cmiller66 · Accepted solution]

Hi Mark,

Currently copy/paste across sheets is not possible.  The closest functionality we have for your case is:

1.  In your drawing with the revision block added > Output > Output Drawing Template

2.  When you create a new drawing, select that template in the Create Drawing dialog.  That new sheet will now have a blank rev table in it,  You can also use the template functionality to get your Notes automatically added to new drawings.

3.  When you add a new sheet, do it via the Add Sheet option on the Sheet bar right-click menu

4.  In Add Sheet dialog, specify that Template for "From"

This will result in a new, blank rev block in the new sheet.  It's a few exxtra steps but does this get you closer to what you want?

Thanks,
Chris

[mark.ezell]

Thanks for the quick reply. This worked. I can now have consistent revision blocks.

[terry_fusion]

It's been three years since this question has been raised, any progress at all?

Copy and paste seems like a fairly easy feature to implement since its already part of the Windows subsystem?

Apparently you can't create a custom table in one drawing and use it as a symbol, or even create it as a dwg and import it. So, I have to recreate a sheet metal table from scratch everytime I do a new drawing? LAME!!!

[taylor.laneH938B]

Agreed! This should be fixed by now - 3 years for simple copy & paste of tables (or even just ability to duplicate entire sheet) is absurd. 

[Anonymous]

Bump for support. The more I use 360 the less it feels like a finished product.

[seth5RH3M]

Ditto

[jiriDVKHM]

I totally agree with others, it's just a madness that in 2021 there is no such simple function, shame.

[akramLFSMC]

Bump - same. Copying sketches and tables from one drawing to another should be a basic feature of the software. 

[nikitanugent]

Bump.

Same. I've had trouble getting tables to actually save in drawing templates, but even if I can get that to work, being left with the choice of either re-doing all my old drawings from scratch using the new template or re-making the same table over an over is not a good situation. (Made worse by the seeming inability to specify column widths in the drawing mode?)

Copy/paste between sheets is clearly possible, as I can copy/paste text blocks between sheets, but not tables. 

[matthew.hasbrouckE9Y3P]

Same. It's silly that I can not copy tables across sheets or even drawings. Please add this basic functionality.

[terry_fusion]

I've given up posting issues, I'm either told I don't need what I'm asking
for, or do it myself.

[ben.hopkinson08]

With missing basic functions like this and a now an affordable home licence for solidworks I can see a lot of people dumping fusion 

[ClintBrown3D]

Hi @ben.hopkinson08 & everyone on this thread.

First off, thank you for sharing your feature requests and your frustrations. I want you all to know that you are most certainly being heard. Every customer request that we get, from meetings, emails, forum posts etc. gets collected and categorised in our feature request database. This information is used to prioritise the features that we build next. This specific request is constantly monitored, and we are actually chipping away at it.

I'd like to let you know where we are with this specific feature request, but it might need a bit of background first... On the surface, these features may seem super simple to implement, but they are often pretty complex. Sometimes we need to build things in the certain order, or do a major project behind the scenes before the functionality is live in the product. To that end, we are currently building "Duplicate Sheet" functionality.

Duplicate Sheet will work just like duplicating a slide in PowerPoint, you will get an exact copy of everything on the sheet, but the 2 sheets will be unique. Hiding or suppressing a component on the original or the duplicate will have no effect on the other. Once we have duplicate sheet implemented, we will then be able to start work on additional copy type projects.

Check out the public roadmap here. You can get a feel for some of the projects that we are working on, and some of the projects that we are planning in the future.

I'd love to hear from all of you directly, and to get your thoughts around copying objects and any other 2D drawing related workflows. If you're up for it, here is a link to my calendar, please book a 30-minute session with me, and we can chat on Zoom. I can also show you some of the new tools that are coming soon. Or if a good old-fashioned email is more your style, feel free to ping me Clint. Brown {a} Autodesk.com

PS:@terry_fusion I'm sorry that you feel there is no point in letting us know about feature requests. Please get in touch, I'd love to connect and understand your use cases, and how we can help.