table link on different separate files

dellray yalung

good day,

i have been doing some production drawings and a newbie on bricscad, your expertise and advise are highly appreciated. here is the scenario.
1. part drawings have tables that indicates description and cut length.
2. assembly drawing have tables that quantifies the parts.

the thing is that i need to link the table of the part drawing to the assembly drawing. is there a way or LISP to have a direct link for the table on each drawings?

Roy Klein Gebbinck

Can you explain what you mean by 'link'?

Joe Dunfee

 I don't think I have much to add to the  discussion, but replying is the only way for me to see the "subscribe to this topic"  option box.  The non-replying version of that was broken in the web site update.

BricsCAD basically treates an X-ref like it was a block.  So, some of the block related commands may work, thought I have not tested this idea.

I recently had to create a BOM, and used the block counter by Lee Mac, since it can show the sub components is a separate list below the main listing.  A few years ago I think I ran into another block counter, that was able to list the blocks with any sub-components indented.  Sorry, but I don't recall the name of that routine.

Another approach, if the table in the Xref only needs to appear intact, is to have the table in model space, and simply create a few of that table.  Be consistent in the naming of the layer you use, so that you can easily turn off those layers in the main assembly.  E.g. "X-refname BOM Table" can be turned off in the main assembly by turning off or filtering all layers with a filter, *BOM Table".

-Joe

dellray yalung

thanks joe for the input it had given me another idea or approach, but im trying not to create multiple files to avoid confusion among users. In Autocad we can add data links on the BOM cells via excel file and im looking for that same approach.
ps. currently im using lee block count w/c is a big help in quantification.

@roy
i need to link values between tables on separate files. BOM
ex: i have a cutting length reflected on table on file "A"  and i have a table on file "B" that requires the value of cutting length on file "A". I need to link them for the reason of auto update the values on each table. Sorry not good in explaining things. hope to give me some ideas.

Roy Klein Gebbinck

This type of linking can be programmed using Lisp I think. But it will require advanced Lisp knowledge.