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Setting up the table data

Setting up the table data - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Setting up the table data

- [Voiceover] So as I mentioned in the previous video, we're gonna look now at setting up our data cells in our New Table Style, called Space Table. So we're staying, as usual, in the 00_GND_FM_SPTABLESETUP.dwg. We won't have moved out of that drawing because we're setting up the Table Style for that particular drawing. So again, in the dialog box now, we go to the Cell style here, and we select Data. Now you'll notice we've got the General, Text, and Borders, so go to General first, here, the General tab. Fill color this time is None. We don't want any fills for our data. The Alignment again is Middle Center, and the Format this time, again, will be Text, but this time it will just be sample text. Now, why would it be Text? Surely it would be something like Decimal Number, or something like General. Well, no, think about it. We're linking text fields into our Space Table. These text fields are the XData coming off of the polylines that represent our spaces, so the text fields are…

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