Yes, I've been using SolidWorks since 2005, And what you sayis true.

One way SolidWorks can solve this is by giving an option to editthe table in excel. What I mean is:
1) Make a general table
2) Right click on it and Edit in excel
3) Close excel and return to the drawing.

Solidworks has a table export feature, but as far as I know, noimport.

If this feature doesn't come in soon, and I get enough support, Ijust might write a macro to implement this myself.

Good luck
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