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Together these two values uniquely identify each block insert instance used in an AutoCAD Electrical project drawing set. (HDL) – gives the AutoCAD “handle” value assigned to each block insert instance (FILENAME) – gives the drawing name of the target drawing There are two key columns that need to appear somewhere in each sheet of the spreadsheet: How does this simple spreadsheet edit know what goes where? So, how does this update work? We could have hundreds of drawings in our project and tens of thousands of components, terminals, and wire numbers in our project. So, in the example above that ended Part 1 of the tutorial showed Excel spreadsheet edits finding their way back to two different drawings in the active project drawing set.

4) Push the edited data back to the drawing set using the “From Spreadsheet” utility.

3) Open Excel spreadsheet and edit, edit, edit.

2) Export the project drawing data “To Spreadsheet”,.

1) Copy existing project and drawings to new names,.

Part 1 of this tutorial, here, demonstrated the following sequence: It might serve as a simple overview / tutorial of this AutoCAD Electrical feature.

This posting is a brief summary of what Nathan covered in the mid-part of the hour-long webcast – using Excel to quickly revise a copied project. I helped put the demo together and was responsible for real-time Q & A support while Nathan was “on stage”. Autodesk’s Nathan Eliason hosted a webcast on Wednesday that focused on AutoCAD Electrical’s ability to use Excel to edit its drawing sets.