- We're staying in our metalplate002.dwg file.
I'm going to do a zoom extents, though.
I'm going to double click on the wheel
just to zoom to the extent of the visible drawn objects.
I'm then going to pan upwards a little bit
and I'm going to basically zoom in,
sort of underneath our plan view, like that.
Make sure you can see the slotted hole.
Make sure you can see these holes here, as well
in our plan view of our plate.
Now what you'll notice here,
is we've got an extra hole here,
which we don't really want
because it doesn't show up in our side view
or our sectional view.
Now you may not have noticed that earlier
but that is an extra hole.
So what I'm going to do here very, very, quickly,
is just jump over to our dimensions panel.
You can see that dim layer override is set to dimensions,
so whatever dimension I place will be on the right layer.
I'm just going to quickly put a radius
on this circle here, like so.
And then this circle here, I'm going to remove.
That can all go.
Now, it's just one of those things sometimes,
sometimes you spot mistakes in a drawing
and what I'm going to do is,
I'm just going to erase that there, like that.
It's very quick and easy to do
and as you can see, I'm working on the drawing,
on the fly, as I go, that's the benefit of AutoCAD,
is you might spot a mistake as you go,
you don't want that hole there anymore,
it gets erased, like so.
So we need to place our table in our drawing.
So, home tab on the ribbon, layers panel,
make sure you're using the table's layer, like so.
I'm going to go back to the annotate tab now on the ribbon
and go to the table's panel here.
Make sure that whole type is our current table style
which it was already,
but I'm just showing you where to find it.
And then we're going to click on table.
Now, as soon as we do this,
you can see there's our table style.
We can start from an empty table.
You can link to data like Excel spreadsheets and things,
we're not going to do that, but you can also link
to object data in the drawing, using data extraction.
We're not going to do that either.
We're just going to start from an empty table.
Now, if I look here, I've got a preview
and I can turn it off.
I don't know why you'd turn off the preview,
I always like to be able to see what I'm doing,
but there you go.
You can turn your preview off if you want to.
I'm going to specify an insertion point
for the table, as well.
Now, we need to think about the number of columns and rows
we've got in our table.
So what we're going to have is a hole type
and also a hole setting, or number perhaps,
and we might even consider
something like a hole radius or diameter.
So really, we need three columns.
Those three columns are there
and I can specify the column width with a value.
Now, if I look at my drawing here,
you can see when we dimensioned this plan view here,
I dunno if you remember, it was 500 long.
So if I'm thinking about placing something in my drawing
and I'm using millimeters here,
I'm going to go for something
probably in the region of about 150.
If you think about it, 150 would be approximately
about a third of that and I can place it nicely
under the plan view label there.
So I'm going to go with 150 for my column widths.
I'll bring my insert table dialogue box back up.
Data rows, we're going to need two data rows
because we've got two hole types.
We've got the circular hole and the slotted hole.
So they're going to have a row height of one line each.
Then, our first row cell style will be title,
as per the preview, our second row cell style
will be header, as per of the preview,
and then any other rows will be data.
I click on OK and there's my little table there.
And I'm just going to pop that
just underneath the plan view here.
Prompts me now for the title of my particular table.
This is going to be hole types.
So I'll type that in and then I'm just going to click
away from the table and you can see, there it is there,
there's the name of our table.
I need to start thinking
about what the headers are going to be now.
So what we're going to have here,
is we're going to have a hole number, like so,
so we'll have a hole number like that
and then I'm going to tab across, hole type,
and then we'll also have a hole radius
slash diameter, like that.
Make sure you spell radius right.
I'm terrible for spelling and typing.
So let's make sure we get that right.
And then click away, like so.
Now, the hole numbers are easy.
We're going to have a hole number one and a hole number two.
So I double click in this cell, like so,
and that'll be hole number one, tab across,
that hole type there is going to be a circular hole.
And then I don't know the hole radius or diameter.
Well, I do really, it's there isn't it?
It's radius 30.
So I can kind of tab that across
and put radius equals 30 like that.
Now you'll notice the numbering,
it does automatically justify to the right.
I can click once in that cell
and you'll notice I've now got my table cell tab up here
and I can work on things like the justification
if I want to.
So I've got things like cell locking, cell format,
Can I do any justification there?
That's interesting, isn't it?
I can't.
What happens if I double click in that cell?
Can I do the justification now?
Yes I can, because it's all multi-line text there.
So justification, I'll go middle center
and there we go.
I might click in this cell now, double click again
and I want the justification there to be middle center.
See, it's already adapted.
So there's middle center there.
That's great.
I can close the text editor, double click the cell again,
just make sure I put the two in there,
tab across, this will be slotted now, like so,
tab across again and the radius of that one
you can just see it at the top of the screen.
The radius on the slotted hole is 25, like so.
So just put some text in there, like so.
You'll notice that sometimes though,
it doesn't update the justification.
You do have to go into each cell sometimes
and update things.
So we'll make sure the justification for that one
is also middle center.
Just click on close text editor, up on the ribbon there
and there's my table.
Very simple table with a table style
and some simple, multi-line text in the table.