drawing history

Hello,

Anyone know if there is a way to see the history of your autocad usage. I just want to see how many hours/day/mth I have been drawing in the recent past.

I think you can type TIME in the command line and it should display how long the file has been used for. It will be a combined time (total editing time) unless you reset it.

you can view individual drawing statistics under file > drawing properties

As the prior posters have pointed out you can retrieve that info a couple of different ways. The problem with either of those approaches however is they do not convey the true value. AutoCAD's time recording is not very robust. The "edit" time is merely the amount of time the drawing has been open. Step away from your computer for a while and the clock keeps on ticking - unless you intervene and reset or something (I don't think there is a pause). I don't know how the timer works when you have multiple drawing open - My bet would be that the timer continues for all drawings, which would be kind of silly because how can you be editing two (or more) drawings at the same time?

You might want to have a look at my CadTempo program (linked in my signature). It's not free but it would give you a more accurate picture of the drawing time and the history of the drawing. It will keep track of each user's elapsed and edit time and provides an exact time line of who opened and closed the drawing and when.