To Insert Pay Item Tables in a Drawing

Use an HTML style sheet to format a report for insertion as a table in the drawing. Only HTML formatted reports can be inserted in the drawing as AutoCAD tables. TXT and CSV formatted reports are inserted as AutoCAD MTEXT blocks. XML reports cannot be placed in a drawing.

  1. Open a drawing in which pay items are attached to objects.
  2. Click Analyze tabQTO panelTakeoff Find.
  3. In the Compute Quantity Takeoff dialog box:
    • Select the option for Report Type.
    • Select the options for Report Extents.
    • Select the options for Report Output.
    • Click Compute.
  4. In the Quantity Takeoff Report dialog box, review the report in the text field.
  5. For report style sheet, from the drop-down list at the bottom of the Quantity Takeoff Report dialog box, select:
    • Detailed Area (HTML).xsl, Detailed Count (HTML).xsl, or Detailed Linear (HTML).xsl for a detailed Report Type table.
    • Summary (HTML).xsl for a summary Report Type table.
  6. Click Draw.
  7. In the drawing, select a location for the table.
  8. Click Close in each dialog box.