3D AutoCAD 2004/2005: One Step at a Time

24.5 Extra Steps

Return to the MyCircuit series of drawings (1a through 1d) you created in Lesson 23. Create a bill of materials in Excel to include all of the objects in MyCircuit1a. Be sure to save the spreadsheet outside of AutoCAD (save as MyMats.xls in the C:\Steps\Lesson24 folder). Then insert the spreadsheet into each of the drawings as an OLE Object, changing the list as necessary to reflect the materials in the drawing. Will you embed or link the spreadsheet?^[*]

^[*] You'll need to embed the OLE Object so that your changes are specific to the individual drawings.