Table printout manager

Use this option to define/modify the printout layout for tables used to prepare steel summary tables.

To begin defining a printout layout, open the Table printout manager dialog from:

• Menu: Steel > Tables > Tables manager (steel part) or Reinforcement > Reinforcement tables > Table Printout/Export/Edit (reinforcement part)
• Ribbon: ASD - Drawings > Tables > Tables manager (steel part) or ASD - Reinforcement > Tables > Table Printout/Export/Edit (reinforcement part)
• Toolbar: Tables manager (steel part) or Table Printout/Export/Edit (reinforcement part)
• Command line: RBCS_LISTPRINT (steel part) or RBCR_LIST_EXP (reinforcement part).

Note: If you select Automatic table update on the Structural Detailing tab of the Options dialog, reinforcement tables in Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing - Reinforcement will be updated automatically after changes are made in a drawing.

The Table printout manager dialog has 2 primary parts:

• On the left is the selection tree (see the drawing below) from which you can select one of the printout manager options

Table composition

Printout composition

Page setup

Frames

Distances

Colors and formats

Header

Footer

Parameters

Templates

• To the right of the selection tree are the parameters that relate to the option you selected in the selection tree. The top part of the dialog shows the layout of a selected table type.
• Use the icons at the top of the dialog:

  Printout preview - click this to open a preview of a table printout; return to the dialog by clicking Close

  Print table - click this to start printing a table

  Save table - click this to open the dialog in which a table may be saved in MS Excel®:

  • *.CSV (Comma Separated Values) format files which are text files
  • *.XLS format files - this saving method fully reflects table settings that can be seen in a preview window

  Save table (MS Word) - click this to open the Save As dialog, where you can save a table in an MS Word file with the specified name

  Save graphical settings - click this to save current settings of the printout manager

  Automatic adjust of column width to header text - click this to adjust the width of table columns to the length of table column names

  Help - click this to open Help

Note: For Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing - Reinforcement, an additional icon lets you insert a table into an edited drawing.

Although a table shape (cell height, column width) depends directly on a defined table style, you can determine the shape.

In addition, there is a context menu with the following options:

• Table cells - group (merges several table cells into one cell) or ungroup
• Text orientation - vertical, horizontal
• Adding or deleting a column in the table
• Adding or deleting a row in the table

The example below shows a table layout after adding a new column at the beginning of the table, merging several table cells, and changing text orientation to vertical. The table displays data for a few positions of structure element reinforcement.