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!

Try variable [VAR]OLEHIDE[/VAR]. 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.

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.

***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.
 
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