A drawing table is identified by the DHandle ProDwgtable which is typedef to ProModelitem and inherited from ProModelitem. The type field in ProDwgtable has the value PRO_DRAW_TABLE.

A drawing table and model-based definition table is identified by the DHandle ProTable which is typedef to ProModelitem and inherited from ProModelitem. The type field in ProTable has the value PRO_TABLE.

The information required to build a mbd table is contained in an opaque data structure, pro_table_data that has to be allocated and filled before the table can be created.