Date and drawing name in drawing

I am pretty good in CAD but don't know much about lisp.

I know there is a date and drawing function in AutoCad

But how do you use lisp to include it on a title block?

As I said, I am not much of a lisp programmer , define shortcut

functions is all.

Oops... didn't notice 2002

Welcome in the forum, Dscottrey!

I am not sure AutoCAd 2002 has fields.

Before Fields I used Diesel expressions to mark my printouts. Search in the forum, for sure you will find the old threads.

it depends on what you're using it for

would the plot stamp fulfill your requirements given the age of the version you're using may limit your options?

There's a good explanation of RTEXT Diesel expressions here: http://www.afralisp.net/lisp/rtext.htm

Are express tools included in ACAD 2002?

I don't know if RTEXT would work in vs. 2002?

Yes, it works in 2002. I still use it in my templates since R2000

You could use something like this:

Insert into drawing as a block, then explode.

REM-TXT.dwg

DIESEL isn't too difficult to learn tbh, if you have access to the RTEXT function, a simple "last edited" can be made using:

Last edited: $(edtime,$(getvar,tdupdate),D.M.YY H:MM)

i have a piece of rtext i created long ago that includes the path, dwg name, username, time & date. very useful for knowing exactly where the file is stored on the server.

See here: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=198

See here: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=198

I thought you may have already dabbled in it Fuccaro