Newbe Question About Excel

[Anonymous]

Can an Excel spreadsheet be linked into ArchiCAD?

[TomWaltz]

Nope.

Graphisoft decided to make PDF the interchange format. You would have to make a PDF from Excel then place that into Archicad.

[Anonymous]

My idea was to insert the excel in Autocad as a linked ole then insert that .dwg file into ArchiCAD as an xref so when the excel is changed it would update in the ArchiCAD sheet.

[TomWaltz]

Feel free to try it, but my bet is that it won't work. Archicad won't follow the link from Autocad through OLE to Excel.

[Anonymous]

Jeff,
Like Tom mentioned, Archcad really wants a PDF file. Fortunately though, you can update the PDF link. I usually save my excel file as a PDF in the same folder with the same name (different extension obviously). I place the PDF in Archicad. If I update the excel file, I save over the PDF, and then in Archicad, I update the PDF. One extra step, but it works out all right.

[Rafal SLEK]

Archicad won't follow the link from Autocad through OLE to Excel.

Funny is, that OLE for xls files was working with version 9 (in PlotMaker)...

[Haneef Tayob]

OLE used to 'work' in AC9, but GS decided against supporting it in AC10. I loved it when it worked, but my experience with it was that it was very unstable and moody.

The topic has been covered previously under Documentation and in the wishlists.