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You can also lock the movement of the schedule table along a specific direction. If you enter a value for
either of the dimension directions in the current edit mode and then press
TAB
, the movement of the
schedule table is constrained to the second dimension direction. When editing along the XY plane, for
example, you can enter a value for the X dimension, and then press
TAB
. The X dimension is locked at that
value, and movement of the schedule table is constrained to the Y dimension direction.
4 Right-click, and click Deselect All to turn off grips.
Changing External Source Properties of a Schedule
Use this procedure to create a schedule table that contains property data from an external drawing such as a project
drawing.
Schedule tables can contain information from external references and block references if it exists in the same drawing
as the schedule table. Optionally, schedule tables can specify an external drawing. The information is scheduled as if
it were an external reference in the same drawing as the table. The advantage is that the graphics of the external drawing
do not need to be generated in order to fill out the data in the table.
1 Double-click the schedule table you want to change.
2 On the Properties palette, expand Advanced, and expand External Source.
3 Specify the external drawing you want to schedule:
Then… If you want to…
select Yes for Schedule external drawing. The External drawing
property is displayed. schedule an external drawing
select No for Schedule external drawing. The External drawing
property is hidden. not schedule an external drawing
click the value for External drawing, select a drawing, or click
Browse, and in the Select a drawing file dialog, browse to
select a drawing, and click OK. specify the external drawing to schedule
The External drawing property is displayed with a drop-down list containing all drawings in the View
directory of the current project. Each drawing corresponds to a view defined in the project. If no project
is active, the list contains all drawings in the last directory browsed.
TIP If you want to schedule the entire project, you can set up one drawing as a container file, and xref in all
project drawings. Then select the name of this drawing for the external drawing source.
Adding Table Breaks to a Schedule
Use this procedure to split long tables into a series of shorter pages.
1 Double-click the schedule table you want to change.
2 On the Properties palette, expand Advanced, and expand Table Breaks.
3 Specify how you want to display the pages of tables:
Then… If you want to…
select Right for Direction. display pages horizontally to the right of one another
select Down for Direction. display pages vertically below one another
select Yes for Repeat title. display the title on each page
select Yes for Repeat Headers. display the column headers on each page
select No for Repeat Headers. hide the column headers on each page
select Yes for Manual heights. control the height of each page individually
select No for Manual heights. have all pages approximately the same height
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