How to adjust table formatting in CAD
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The material list prepared by the design institute for our company is in CAD format; when I opened it, I found that the row heights of the table were inconsistent, and the font sizes were extremely small. I would like to ask my friends: how can I adjust the row heights in a table to be consistent, and how can I change the font size?
There seems to be a plugin available online; give it a try.
Are there any dedicated forms for CAD as well? I’m still too young. Is it usually drawn with straight lines? You can move it around freely; it’s quite convenient to draw this way. Just set the offset or array for one side
Although AutoCAD has powerful graphic capabilities, its table-processing functions are relatively weak. In practical work, it is often necessary to create various tables in AutoCAD, and how to create them efficiently is a very practical issue. Drawing tables manually using lines in AutoCAD, and then entering text into those tables, is not only inefficient but also makes it difficult to precisely control the position of the text; text formatting presents further problems as well. Although AutoCAD supports object linking and embedding, allowing tables from Word or Excel to be inserted, it is not very convenient to make modifications – any slight change requires switching to Word or Excel, and after making the changes, one has to return to AutoCAD. On top of that, some special symbols are difficult to enter in Word or Excel. Is there a way to achieve the best of both worlds? After some investigation, a good solution was found: first create the table in Excel, copy it to the clipboard, and then in AutoCAD, use the Edit menu’s Option Paste option and select the appropriate format. . . Once determined, the table is converted into an AutoCAD solid; by using the explode command, it is possible to edit the lines and text within it, which is very convenient. Starting with AutoCAD 2004, a new table drawing command, Table, was added. After activating the command, a dialog box for inserting a table appears: Steps to create a table: 1. Select a table style from the list, or click the button to create a new table style. 2. Select the insertion method: specify the insertion point for the table or the insertion window for the table. 3. Set the number of columns and column width. If the window insertion method is used, the user can choose the number of columns or the column width, but not both at the same time. 4. Set the number of rows and row height. If the window insertion method is used, the number of rows is determined by the window size and row height specified by the user. Click “OK” to generate a table; double-click on the cells within the table to insert new text or edit existing text. Click to select the table, and use the grips to adjust its size as well as the width or height of its rows and columns. Have you learned it?
The font in the table I copied from Excel is set to SimSun by default; how can I quickly change it to the font I want for everything? For now, I can only make changes one cell at a time; it becomes troublesome when the table is large.
Once it’s exploded, modifications can be made all at once
Mark it so you can refer to it later for easier learning*
The question raised by the original poster is thought-provoking; in the past it was fine to modify just a few tables one by one, but with more tables it really becomes a hassle