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Adding fields to a table

Adding fields to a table - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Adding fields to a table

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- [Instructor] We're staying with our tables theme in the chapter, but we've got a new drawing for you. It's called TableStyles_FIELDS.dwg. And you know the drill. Download it from the library to follow along with the video. Now, you'll notice that this table has already been designed. You can see that we've got the highlighting, we've got the colors, but, more importantly, we've also got these two polylines over here. Now, these two polylines are going to be utilized, and field data from the polylines is going to be inserted into the table. And it's a really nice feature in AutoCAD. You can take data from objects in your drawing and put them into a table. So we've got Polyline Layer as a column. We've got Polyline Area as a column as well. I'm going to double click here in the Polyline Layer cell for polyline number one. So I'm going to double click in there like so. Now, I can put some data in there, or I can go…

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