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Working with Table Data, Dimension Tolerance Alignment

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AUTOCAD 2008 PREVIEW GUIDE Figure 62. Dimension Tolerance Alignment Working with Table Data AutoCAD 2008 offers significant new and enhanced functionality to help you maximize the value of your drawing data by defining and applying table styles, extracting drawing data to tables, and integrating drawing data with external data files such as Excel® spreadsheets. AutoCAD 2008 enables you to create a new AutoCAD table based on three different types of data: static data, externally linked data, and object data. The tools to create tables for each of these types of data are available as insert options in the Insert Table dialog box (TABLE command). 38

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AUTOCAD 2008 PREVIEW GUIDE
Figure 62. Dimension Tolerance Alignment
Working with Table Data
AutoCAD 2008 offers significant new and enhanced functionality to help you maximize the value of your
drawing data by defining and applying table styles, extracting drawing data to tables, and integrating drawing
data with external data files such as Excel
®
spreadsheets.
AutoCAD 2008 enables you to create a new AutoCAD table based on three different types of data: static data,
externally linked data, and object data. The tools to create tables for each of these types of data are available
as insert options in the Insert Table dialog box (TABLE command).
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