Table Data

[bweir]

I'm glad to see that Autodesk finally put a Table Entity into AutoCAD. However I thing that you guys could do a little better.

- Add combinations of Text with Blocks to cells
- Add mulitiple blocks to cells
- Row and Column Addressing (like in Excel) and calculate functions
- Improve the Table Styles for use of templates (the current styles are way too basic)
- In the Styles, format a Row/Column rather then same for all data
- Add Headings on Left or Right (not just Top or Bottom)

[Wanderer]

I second that emotion...

[bweir]

Something else I just thought about. The ability to insert a Table into MTEXT.

[RobertB]

Getting greedy now, aren't you? Since a table has MText within it, that might be tricky.

[molsen72358]

How about the ability to put the lines on a different layer than the text so we don't have to force color.

[DAVIDINEDMOND]

How about the holy grail of tables in autocad and be able to insert a linked excel table that is still an autocad entity such as a block with set linetypes/layers/etc...

[bpayne]

I would just be happy if a table template could be saved outside the drawing you created it in. It's like being able to make a block, but not being able to write it out to a file. (OK...so Design Center makes this illustration less impactful then it could be, but you know what I mean!)

[RobertB]

How about the ability to put the lines on a different layer than the text so we don't have to force color.

Actually, tables need to support STB's also.

[bweir]

Getting greedy now, aren't you? Since a table has MText within it, that might be tricky.

Shouldn't be difficult to combine MTEXT and a TABLE. You can nest block within block within block. I see the technology functioning in a similar manure with combining MTEXT and TABLEs.

[dgriessmann]

How do dumb down a table created in 2005 so it can be viewed in 2004?