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Adding fields to a table

Adding fields to a table - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Adding fields to a table

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- [Instructor] We're staying with the theme of attributes and tables. And what we're going to look at in this particular video is how to add fields, text fields, into your AutoCAD tables by extracting data from objects on the drawing. So we've got a new drawing for you. It's TableStyles_Fields.dwg. And what you've got in the drawing is a Polylines Areas table with a couple of green polylines over there to the right of the table. What we're going to do is we're going to extract the layer that the polylines are on and the area of the polylines as well. And then we're going to sum those up in the total area box, bottom-right in the table. It's actually very quick and easy to do. And it's actually really useful, because then if you do change those polylines and you update the areas of the polylines or change the layers, because you're using text fields, it will update in the table as well. So make sure that you are in the drawing and you can see the table and you can also see the…

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