Hi. I need a way or program to extract an attribute from a block in AutoCAD to Excel. Can someone teach me ACAD attribute extraction to Excel? I use Microsoft Excel 2010. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Hi Edwaard,
There's a DATA EXTRACTION wizard that can help you do it. Please follow these simple steps:
1- On the "Insert tab", go under the Menu "linking and extraction data"
2- Click on the extract data button (it will require you to save your drawing)
3- Enter a name for your data extraction and click "Save" and then "Next"
5- select display option "Display blocks with attributes only" and click "Next" (be sure to select the objects you want to extract attributes from)
6- Select the attributes you want to extract only and click "Next"
7- click on "Link External Data"
8- Now you'll have to create a link to the Excel spreadsheet so keep "None" selected as a source and click on the button on the right to launch the "Data Link Manager"
9- click on the "create new Excel data link" and name it
10- Browse to the Excel file, this file should contain columns as wanted, select it and click OK
11- on the next window, keep the default and click OK (now you must see the excel spreadsheet in the window)
12- Select the Excel spreadsheet and click OK so you'll see it in the drop down list
13- In the "Drawing data column" select the attribute you want to extract
14- In the "External data column" select the column that you'll be extracting to. You can verify by checking that both match
15- Once you click OK, you'll see all the data listed in the window, click "Next"
16- In the Output options, select "Output data to external data file", click "Next" and check if you want to add some other options, the "finish"
And TADAAAA!
