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insertion of design table in a drawing.... w/ a little rant on the side...

Hey guys... I am having some issues of the insertion of a design table in a drawing... the design table i am wanting to insert is 19 columns long by 7 rows high... as i type this, i have my screened resolution maxed out at 1920X1200px just to get it to fit.... I am following the instructions from the SW help file but the number of columns is killing me... it is basically saying i have to drag and stretch the table in SW to fit the content i want to show up in the table that i insert in the drawing.... i have it working at my current resolution, but when i change my resolution back and i have to edit the table, it will screw things up and only show what it can squeeze in there per the resolution... so, my questions to you guys is, am i doing it right, per how i described above, or does SW just suck when it comes to the creation and control of tables? I am at my wits end over here... my VAR isnt 24hrs, at least i cant get a hold of them as usual, SW corportate doesn't have techies on standby that i can get a hold of... Its the weekend, yes, i understand that, but if you have a project due monday at 6:30AM and you have a question or issues, you are basically hosed...THANK YOU VERY MUCH SOLIDWORKS!!!!! at least with PTC you could get some kind of help or a live person to talk to i feel better now :) any help you guys can give me in terms of a work around would be great... thanks for the help...

Jeff

Jeff

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Another hack to deal with the pathetic limitations of embedded OLE objects is to specify a really tiny font in the DT, insert it, then get everything visitble. Right-click on the OLE DT in the drawing and scal it up to a readable size.

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Dale Dunn

i will give that a whirl... one other thing i was wondering, how do you get the table you inserted into the drawing look nice... meaning, there is one of the lines that runs between the rows, the "invisible" guides to show you the rows, showing up instead of not... i hope that made sense... i woulda figured by inserting an excel spreadsheet with borders turned on that it would show up like it does when you print it... oh well... thanks... any other thougths, tricks, hard objects to throw at the screen that make cool sounds?!? :)

Jeff

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Jeff

Here's a wild hack:

  1. Screen Shot the Table from Excel, save as .jpg
  2. Edit/crop as needed
  3. Insert into a Word .doc
  4. Insert the Word .doc onto the drawing sheet
  5. Drag corners to size.

Of course, this method doesn't allow for any type of table update, but maybe good enough to make a drawing quickly.

Best Regards, Devon T. Sowell

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Thanks guys for your thoughts and hacks on my issue... more questions though in regards to these darned tables in drawings... I am working on a product drawing with 5 part variations that are going to be on a charted drawing, in metric... My first question is, is it possible to have some dimensions in the chart show up in english, such as an english tap size; i.e. #10-32?! Also, can you show a high/low limit of a dimension in a cell?!? I really want this to work so everything is tied together and updates accordingly with the part model instead of just a picture... Any more help you guys can provide would be great.... oh, and its going on 9AM on monday and still no call back from my tech support in regards to my call on saturday morning...uggggg... thanks again guys for your hacks and thoughts...

Jeff

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Jeff

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