If you want to count the number of materials for purchases or make a list of material tags with which they are marked on parts, then this plugin will come in handy. First, you need to assign materials to parts (3D solids). This means the usual render material, which is in the properties of any drawing object in Autodesk® AutoCAD® or BricsCAD. You can also assign materials to individual solid faces - these materials will be considered coatings (laminate, paint, edges). If you want to recalculate the amount of material in pieces (sheets or rods) or you need the weight of parts or the cost of materials, then you need the program A>V>C>  Properties palette. It will add sheet dimensions, density, and price to the properties of common materials. Then you can call the MatTable command, create, and save the Table of Materials.

The program works on the basis of the Data Table, uses the same settings, and has the same capabilities. The dimensions of parts and their surfaces are extracted from the metrics of the solid.

Program features

• Process all objects visible through the viewport or ModelDoc=ViewBase view (selecting by view).

• Create a single table from objects from different drawings (DWG or DXF).

• Filter only the necessary parts from all selected by layer, by type of object, by manufacturing technology.

• Read parts from inside assembly-blocks, arrays, xrefs, and dynamic blocks.

• Index materials and assign them non-repeating letters so that you can then use these indices on Smart Leaders for short designation of materials for surfaces and edges.

• Take into account the necessary stocks (scraps) of materials for the manufacture of each part.

• Count the number of different types of materials in different ways, depending on their purpose: by volume (for solid wood/metal), by area (for sheets and coatings), by length (for rods, moldings, and edge bandings).

• Customize any kind of table, with any columns, using the lookup system.

• Create combined columns from multiple material or part parameters.

• Format numbers and any data using substitution formats. Each column can be formatted differently.

• Group table rows into sections and record section names.

• Sort rows in ascending or descending order.

• Count sums in concatenated rows.

• Multiply the number of parts by a given factor. This will allow you to calculate the number of materials for a series of products in one drawing.

• Calculate mathematical formulas from single-line data.

• Calculate totals by group and across the entire table.

• Save results in drawing in DWG-tables or texts.

• Split long DWG-tables into multiple layouts.

• Save results in Excel, CSV, or XML files.

• Automatically pick the folder and name for the spreadsheet file according to your settings.

• Save results to the clipboard for pasting into any programs.

• The program has ready-to-use table styles for inserting a list of materials into the cutting programs Cutting3 and OptiCut (panels and bars).

• Quickly switch between multiple presets (styles).

• Work in 1 click - select a viewport and table to insert data along with objects to retrieve data.

• Customize all these features in a convenient dialog box.

The MaterialTable program comes with commands for working with tables: "Paste to Table" (PTT) and "Split Table" (TableSplit). As you know, the built-in AutoCAD tables have extremely limited functionality. It will not work just to copy cells from Excel and paste them into AutoCAD. This flaw is partially compensated by the "Paste to Table" command. With its help, you can insert any text into the AutoCAD table, separated by tabs and line breaks. Including data copied to the clipboard by the "Material Table" command. And the "SplitTable" command will help to send a table that does not fit into one sheet (layout) to the printer.

The AVC_MatTable plugin comes with a command to update all tables (TableUpdate) and a command to Fill in Table (TableFill).

The MatTable command is included in the collection A>V>C> Pro.

Regardless of the AutoCAD localization language, you can switch the plugin to English, Italian, German, Russian, Chinese (PRC), Spanish, French, or Turkish localization.