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Annotation: Working with fields to add useful data to AutoCAD tables

Annotation: Working with fields to add useful data to AutoCAD tables - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

Annotation: Working with fields to add useful data to AutoCAD tables

- [Instructor] Welcome to another AutoCAD tip and trick. And what we're going to have a look at now, is how we can add field data to our cells in our AutoCAD tables in our AutoCAD drawings. So for that reason, we've got a new drawing for you. It's called room field data, .dwg. You can download it from the library to follow along with this Tips and Tricks video. When you open it, it should be in the model space, and you should be on your tables layer in the Layers panel in the home tab on the ribbon. You'll also see in the model space, we've got three rectangles which are enclosed polylines, and they enclose an area. So we've got room one, room two, room three. Now what we're going to do, we're going to create a table in our layout tab. So we're going to go to ISO a one landscape, there's the Layout tab. No title block this time in this tip and trick, we don't really need one, but you can see we've got a nice scaled viewport here, with our room one, two and three showing in it. Making…

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