EXCEL WILL NOT PLOT
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Printed Date: 11.Jun.2026 at 21:53
Topic: EXCEL WILL NOT PLOT
Posted By: bugleboy62
Subject: EXCEL WILL NOT PLOT
Date Posted: 06.Oct.2008 at 15:54
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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 |
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Posted By: Kackac
Date Posted: 06.Oct.2008 at 17:49
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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. ------------- I'm sorry for my bad English. Kackac |
Posted By: bugleboy62
Date Posted: 06.Oct.2008 at 18:43
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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 |
Posted By: ineke
Date Posted: 11.Oct.2008 at 12:34
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***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. http://www.plotterdriver.it - www.plotterdriver.it ------------- www.plotterdriver.it |