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Working with complex calculations

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Working with complex calculations

- Because we're using Microsoft Excel to drive this part here, I've got a lot of power built in to Microsoft Excel that allows me to do complex calculations and so many more things. I'm going to jump back into the table now, and I made a couple changes to my part since the last revision there, so I've added this hole here, and I've changed the color. I'm going to go on to the table, so if you don't have the table folder open, just click on the drop-down, click on Design Table, right-click, and say Edit Table. Now it's going to jump us back into the configuration that we were in before, but also gives us the ability to add a few rows. Notice I've got these parameters like color, description, library material, part number, and all these other states. Let's go ahead and bring all those in just for fun by holding the Ctrl, click on OK, and that's going to bring those items into my table now, and I can click on the corner here and just drag that table out to a little bit bigger so I can…

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