Thanks James - i'll check it out. One of our people was really upset about losing that ability. 
Haneef wrote:The loss of OLE is the greatest loss of Archicad 10, IMHO. Still don't understand why ...
I used to enjoy the OLE facility in Plotmaker 9, especially for drawings indexes and finishing schedules which I would paste from Excel. There were problems where I would lose the link, which is why the pdf option didn't sound to bad.
My main concern now is with the conversion of the spreadsheets to autocad and dxf files. The pdf's of these text items get converted to images, which are not simple to manage, especially when you have to e-mail and share these with consultants. I haven't yet tested how they print once converted to these formats
I've now compromised in that simple text items for items I know will have to be shared with other cad programs will not be linked to pdf's , but will use one of the paste options.
Djordje wrote:EPS too.....Haneef wrote:The loss of OLE is the greatest loss of Archicad 10, IMHO. Still don't understand why ...
I used to enjoy the OLE facility in Plotmaker 9, especially for drawings indexes and finishing schedules which I would paste from Excel. There were problems where I would lose the link, which is why the pdf option didn't sound to bad.
My main concern now is with the conversion of the spreadsheets to autocad and dxf files. The pdf's of these text items get converted to images, which are not simple to manage, especially when you have to e-mail and share these with consultants. I haven't yet tested how they print once converted to these formats
I've now compromised in that simple text items for items I know will have to be shared with other cad programs will not be linked to pdf's , but will use one of the paste options.
I have another workaround to this problem without having to use the pdf route, especially if you need to export the layout as vector elements.
Copy the item from MSExcel or MSWord and then paste as 'Archicad 2d Elements'
Unlike plotmaker 9 which did not have a 'resize' option, Archicad10 does have it. So you can then resize the pasted spreadsheet to the size you want.
Unfortunately its not a live link and sometimes single sentences get split up.
As expressed by everyone else, the OLE feature of AC9 was one of the feature I would brag about to colleagues.
Copy the item from MSExcel or MSWord and then paste as 'Archicad 2d Elements'
Unlike plotmaker 9 which did not have a 'resize' option, Archicad10 does have it. So you can then resize the pasted spreadsheet to the size you want.
Unfortunately its not a live link and sometimes single sentences get split up.
As expressed by everyone else, the OLE feature of AC9 was one of the feature I would brag about to colleagues.
