From the course: AutoCAD Electrical Essential Training
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Run automatic reports
From the course: AutoCAD Electrical Essential Training
Run automatic reports
- [Narrator] In the previous video, we set up our template, our SET files for our reporting output, and we were preparing for automatic reporting. Now what's really, really nice about automatic reporting is you can set up all of these report templates, so if you've got loads of reports to generate every Friday afternoon for example, you can set up all of these SET files and just go to automatic reporting and say, "I want this automatic report" "set up to print the reports or" "put the reports on drawings" and so on. Now, we've done a really, really sort of low-level, simple set up there with two SET files, one that goes to an XLS file, one that goes to a drawing and puts the table on the drawing itself. So let's go to Automatic Reports now, it's in the miscellaneous panel, and the Reports tab on the ribbon; now, what we're going to do is we're going to look for our missing bill of material, that was the one that was going to the XLS file, so that's there like so, we then come down…
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