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Home Page ZWCAD Functions & Commands How to Insert Excel Table into ZWCAD

How to Insert Excel Table into ZWCAD

Issue:

Need to insert excel table into ZWCAD, but unable to find the steps to do so.

 

Solution:

There are two different kinds of methods to insert excel table in ZWCAD. You can choose one of them to fit your needs.

 

Method 1 :

1. Copy the data you want to import into ZWCAD.

Copy your needed data into ZWCAD

 

2. Find the Clipboard in the Ribbon menu and choose Paste Special. Then the Paste Special box will pop up and set the source pasted as ZWCAD Entities. The next step is to click OK. Finally, you can specify one insertion point at anywhere you like.

Find the Paste Special box in ZWCAD

Set paste source as ZWCAD Entities

Final imported excel table in ZWCAD

 

Method 2 :

1. Execute TABLE command, or choose Table command from the classic or ribbon menu.

Using the table command to insert an excel table in ZWCAD

Find the table button in classic menu in ZWCAD

Find the table button in ribbon menu in ZWCAD

 

2. In the Insert Table dialog box, choose the "From a data link" insert option, then click the data link icon to open Data Link Manager dialog. Double-click "Create a new Excel data link", input the data link name, and click OK.

Import the data into ZWCAD in the Insert Table dialog box

 

3. Browse to choose the excel file, specify the range of the table data to insert, and click OK.

Choose the excel file to import into ZWCAD

 

Note:

When the table data is large, it may take some time to generate the preview image. Sometimes the preview is not available if the table area is too large.

 

4. Follow the procedure to finish the insert.

The last step of importing excel table into ZWCAD

Final imported excel table in ZWCAD