Reporting information about entities

Information about entities can be collected from one or more drawings into reports such as entity lists, schedules, and parts lists. The extracted information can include property settings, entity area calculations, coordinate positions, and more.

First you create a report template that contains the settings for the type of report you need, for example, you can include only block entities with annotative properties and control the order in which the columns display. Then the report template can be used to create a report for any drawing file.

Reports are created as tables in the current drawing or as external .xls or .csv files. If you create a table in the drawing with report data, the table contents can later be updated to include the latest information about referenced entities.

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Creating a report

Updating report data

1. Creating a report
2. Updating report data