You can
extract information from a set of entities to create a bill of
materials.
The Data Extraction wizard lets you specify a set of entities or
blocks and extract properties and attributes information. For example, you can specify a
set of bolts in a project and extract the attribute data.
When you create a new data extraction, the software prompts you to save the corresponding
settings in a Data Extraction File (.det). The Data Extraction file
stores the data source selections, entities and property selection, and table
formatting. For the template, you can use a previously created data extraction file.
A Data Extraction file (.det) lets you extract drawing data with the
same properties from multiple drawings.
In addition, you can use data extraction files as the basis for new data extractions. You
can modify the set of drawings, add or remove entities, or specify different properties
from which to extract data.
You can export the data to the following outputs:
- Table on the current drawing
- External file (.csv or .txt)