Interactive schedule for labels only

[Tom Krowka]

I have a DWG from autocad imported into my PLN. It has lots of restaurant equipment (2D blocks only). I would like to point to each piece of equipment with a letter, then add some text (like the name of the piece, voltage and or plumbing requirement, etc). It would be great if I could then use the schedules to pull that information out, total the number of individual units, and generate a schedule that I could update.

I can't figure out a way to do this with the labels included in AC. Can I even generate a schedule with labels only? Don't want to recreate each piece of equipment....this needs to be quick and dirty otherwise I might as well do it the old fashioned way.....one dumb piece at a time typed into a schedule created with row and columns with lines.

Thanks.

[Eduardo Rolon]

Use JMurray's Label http://www.onland.info/archives/2015/07/shape_tag_and_label_jm16.php

With this you can schedule it if you use the label object since that one can be scheduled.

[Tom Krowka]

Eduardo:
Thanks for the quick reply. That's close, but I need to be able to add text within the label, and have that information show up on the schedule. Perhaps as custom text as in some of the other labels.

That label, with the capacity to add several columns of custom text, is what I'm looking for. I need to add things such as the name of the equipment, voltage, etc. that don't show up on the label in the drawing. Or did I miss something with your label?

Tom .

[Dave Seabury]

Tom

With the shape tag you can add Parameters for what ever values
you want to schedule, see attached

David

[Tom Krowka]

That will work. Not quite the way I envisioned, but close enough. Thanks.