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Adding a table to your drawing

Adding a table to your drawing - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Adding a table to your drawing

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We're going to place a simple table now in our metalplate002.dwg file. We're still in the same drawing and ideally you want to zoom into an area in between the plan view and the section view and the side view. So about here. And then we're going to basically create a simple table that basically lists our whole types in our drawing. So, in order to do that, my suggestion is that you go to the Home tab on the Ribbon, go to the Layer drop-down, and we need a Tables layer. We don't have one right now. So we click on Layer Properties here. Click on it once to lose the drop-down menu, click on it again to open Layer Properties. Click on your new layer icon here, and this will just be a layer called Tables, like so, you want to make sure that you set the appropriate colors and line types so there's the tables layer click here on the color it's going to be red this index color one here click on OK make sure that line type is continuous select it and OK it make sure the line weight is default…

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