CAD Forum - Database of tips, tricks and utilities for AutoCAD, Inventor and other Autodesk products [www.cadforum.cz]
CZ | EN | DE
Login or
registration
  Visitors: 10278
Arkance Systems CZ
FB TW YT LN Blog
RSS channel - CAD tips RSS tips
RSS discussions

Discussion Discussion forum

 

HelpCAD discussion

 
CAD Forum - Homepage CAD discussion forum - ask any CAD-related questions here, share your CAD knowledge on AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit and other Autodesk software with your peers from all over the world. To start a new topic, choose an appropriate forum.

Please abide by the rules of this forum.

How to post questions: register or login, go to the specific forum and click the NEW TOPIC button.
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedEXCEL WILL NOT PLOT
 Post Reply Post Reply
Author
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
bugleboy62 View Drop Down
Newbie
Newbie


Joined: 12.Aug.2008
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 2 		Direct Link To This Post Topic: EXCEL WILL NOT PLOT
    Posted: 06.Oct.2008 at 15:54
Hi all,

Is there a way to take a small Excel spreadsheet, paste it into an ACAD 2004 drawing, and plot it?

I can get the spreadsheet to paste, but plot preview shows nothing, and plots nothing.

I don't want or need to access the data, I just want to include a simple Excel worksheet as view only.

Thanks!
bugleboy62
Back to Top
Kackac View Drop Down
Groupie
Groupie


Joined: 03.Oct.2008
Location: Czech Republic
Status: Offline
Points: 62 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06.Oct.2008 at 17:49
Try variable OLEHIDE. Maybe the OLE object (the spreadsheet pasted into autocad ctrl+v is OLE) is in the not printed layer?
Or you can paste a spreadsheet as autocad entities (edit->paste as... or something like that), this way you make an autocad table, not OLE.
I'm sorry for my bad English. Kackac
Back to Top
bugleboy62 View Drop Down
Newbie
Newbie


Joined: 12.Aug.2008
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 2 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06.Oct.2008 at 18:43
Thanks for the ideas. I did have it on Defpoints layer.

I was able to get the spreadsheet to plot by right-clicking the spreadsheet in the CAD drawing and setting the OLE plot quality to High Quality Photograph.
bugleboy62
Back to Top
ineke View Drop Down
Newbie
Newbie


Joined: 24.May.2008
Location: Italy
Status: Offline
Points: 8 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11.Oct.2008 at 12:34
***Sometime people want to put a bitmap (an image, a text document or an Excel spreadsheet) in the middle of their drawing, next to their CAD diagram.
These documents are linked to the CAD drawing; on the screen, they look like one.
In that case, they are OLE objects.
OLE = Object Linking and Embedding.

Many CAD - even AutoCAD - have/had a lot of problems in printing mixed documents (OLE objects+vectors), as bitmaps and vectors use different languages.
This is because the AutoCAD print driver can only print the AutoCAD diagram - it cannot print the Excel spreadsheet because it does not work /worked with Excel.

Do you experience this problem with all mixed files?
If yes, you need a printer driver that can interpret and print OLE objects from inside CAD files.
 

www.plotterdriver.it
Back to Top

Related CAD tips:


 Post Reply Post Reply
  Share Topic   

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0,391 seconds.
CF
CAD Forum - tips, tricks, utilities, discussion for AutoCAD, LT, Inventor, Revit, Map, Civil 3D, 3ds Max, Fusion 360 and other Autodesk software (support by Arkance Systems)
Arkance Systems CZ (CAD Studio) - Autodesk Platinum Partner & Training Center & Services Partner
CONTACT:
webmaster.cz@arkance-systems.com
tel. +420 910 970 111
  Copyright ©2024 | Advertise with us | Online privacy
FB TW YT LN Blog
TOPlist