By Gus Petrikas
If you ever find yourself in a position were you have to change a property of a component after you finish your drawing, here are a couple of ways to do just that. The obvious one would be to edit the components one-by-one using the Edit Component command, but that could be really time consuming, if you are working on a bigger project. The second, much faster solution to the problem would be to edit all the components at once, using Excel:
- Inspect the components that need to modified. For the purpose of this demonstration I am going to change the Rating of these circuit breakers.
- Navigate to the Import/Export Data tab on the ribbon and select To Spreadsheet.
- Choose the data category that needs exporting. In this case - Components.
- Choose the preferred format. I would recommend .xls as it is very easy to edit the exported file.
- Then, pick the files that will be included in the spreadsheet and hit OK.
- You should now have an exported spreadsheet with all the Component information. Open the spreadsheet and make the necessary modifications.
- Save and exit.
- Navigate back to the Import/Export Data tab and click From Spreadsheet.
- Choose if the changes need to be made to the Project or the Active Drawing and hit OK.
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The drawing should automatically display the new, updated component values.
