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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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- [Voiceover] In the previous video we set up our table style and designed our table, and we brought it in like so. Now what we've got in this drawing is we've got our table as we set up previously with the polyline number, polyline layer, and polyline area columns, but I've also brought in two polylines. We have a rectangular polyline, which is on the polylines layer, and a hexagonal polyline, which again is on the polylines layer. Now what we want to do is we want to add the information from the polylines to the table. You do that by way of utilizing fields in AutoCAD. So, for polygon number one, or polyline number one, it's still a polygon at the end of the day, a four-sided polygon, I want the layer and area information from that rectangle to go into the table. So I double click in the polyline layer cell here like that. Now that cell is now highlighted. You can see that the ribbon has changed to the text editor, and in the Insert panel, I've got a Field option. So if I click…

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