Batch attribute block ref. creation from worksheet

Batch create attribute content with Microsoft® Excel® autofill, batch convert Excel content into Attribute Block references Maintain data integrity with an Excel worksheet.

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Autodesk® AutoCAD® attribute block is great; Microsoft® Excel® worksheet autofill is also marvelous. Why don't we combine them?

This app is designed to use both of the above great features in one place: You can batch-create block references with attributes read from an Excel worksheet. Each worksheet column can be set to correspond to an attribute tag; each worksheet row of text data corresponds to a block reference attribute's values.

Data required for positioning block references in the drawing is also retrieved from the worksheet, the same mechanism as the attribute, except the data type is numeric. Block references can be positioned in one of the following ways:

Along with a profile view;
By X, Y coordinate values in WCS;
Along a 2D polyline;
Along a Civil 3D alignment (Option (4) only available in the Autodesk® Civil 3D® application).

Typical usage scenarios are:

Insert the title block across layouts
Insert structure block refs along profile/ alignment (eg, manhole block, pier/abutment block, culvert block, traffic sign block, tree block....)
Insert description/comment block refs for those structures, along with profile/ alignment

Typically, the app works with the World Coordinate System (WCS) and Model space.

If the User Coordinate System (UCS) was used in the model, an implicit transformation to WCS is applied; The App also works in Paper space (Layout) or inside an active Viewport, but in such cases, it is recommended that users should double-check the results before mass production.

Notes:

Users do not have to do any registration or sign in to their Autodesk account to run this Free App.
Sample drawings and worksheets are placed in %programdata%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\NTCL_BlockFromWorksheet.Bundle\Contents\SampleDrawings
Users can also get 30-day trials of the more advanced version of this app from Autodesk App Store: Perpetual license version or Subscription license version