Using the commands on the Table tab you can create tables and add them to drawing formats. When you add a format to a drawing, all of the tables in the format are copied into the drawing. The copied tables are independent of the original format, and you can move, modify, or delete them.

If you add a table to a format, the drawings that already reference this format do not display the new table. The table must be part of the format when you initially copy it into the drawings. To use the modified format in the drawing, you must use the replace function.

When you add a format to a drawing that contains the format table, the system stores the values you specified for the table as drawing parameters, if you have set the configuration file option make_parameters_from_fmt_tables to yes. You can access the parameters using the Tools > Parameters command.

If you set this configuration option to no, when you add a format to a drawing, the system prompts you to retype all of the values every time, and it does not evaluate the values on subsequent sheets of the drawing in the format table. These values are nonparametric text.

If you change the format size of a drawing with a table, the system scales the table (in the same way that it scales any views and draft entities) to maintain its location relative to other items and the sheet boundaries. Since the Detail option drawing_text_height controls the height of any text in the table, the system does not scale text that you include in the table. Therefore, it does not maintain a size that is proportional to the rest of the table. You must modify the text height manually.