AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD LT 2007: No Experience Required

Creating a Table

All professions that use AutoCAD use tables to consolidate and display data in organized formats. Architectural construction documents usually include at least three basic tables: door, window, and room finish schedules. These are usually drawn in table form and display the various construction and material specifications for each door or window type or for each room. To illustrate the AutoCAD tools for creating tables, you'll construct a simple door schedule for the cabin.

You create tables in AutoCAD by first creating a table style and then creating a table using that style it's a process similar to that of defining a text style and then inserting text in a drawing using that style.

Defining a Table Style

Table styles are more complex than text styles. They include parameters for width and height of rows and columns and, among other things, at least one text style.

  1. Make Cabin10c the current drawing. You'll make a new file by saving this file to the new file's name.

  2. Choose File Save As, and, in the Save Drawing As dialog box, rename this file as Cabin10c-Sheet2. Click Save.

  3. Make sure all layers are thawed and turned on, and then erase everything in the drawing except the border and the title block. This drawing still has all the layers, blocks, and text styles that the Cabin10c drawing had.

  4. In the title block, change the sheet number from 1 of 1" to 2 of 2.

  5. Create a new layer...

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