ACNE

ACNE, the Automated Cable Number (Schedule) Extractor, is a program that builds cable schedules, in Excel, from your AutoCAD drawing set. It works by mining your drawings for the blocks and their attributes representing equipment and connections and connects them together on matching cable numbers. It is also useful for finding errors like duplicate and one ended cables.

ACNE is developed and supported by Axus Pacific. I have been using it for years and have discovered a few tips and tricks along the way that will make your life with ACNE a little easier. If you are considering training or ACNE-specific solutions then I may be able to help. Please send me an email from my contact page.

ACNE and the case of the Missing Cable Numbers

By CADbloke on January 27, 2011

I have run the drawing through ACNE more than once and I get the same result: some of the cables are missing from the cable schedule. Why?

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Installing ACNE on Windows 7

By CADbloke on October 13, 2010

There are two parts to the Windows 7 and ACNE tale – installation and running. The crux of the matter is that you need to install and run ACNE as a Windows XP compatible application

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Using ACNE with Excel 2007 or 2010

By CADbloke on September 13, 2010

ACNE was originally developed to run in Windows XP and with versions of Excel that used the .XLS format (97 & 2003). Excel’s file format changed to the .XLSX format with the release of Office 2007 and continues with Office 2010. Both ACNE and Excel need some adjustments to make ACNE work properly.

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