title date block

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would anyone know how to make a current date block? I know there's a way of doing so, I just haven;t found the corredct way to do it.

I've also looked for the file location block attribute. I know it exists cuz the architect in this office used to have it. When he quit, he took it out of the pc's =/

anywho, any info on these two thingies would be more than greatly appretiated

I'm using Archtiectural Desktop 2.0

Freddy

[f700es]

would anyone know how to make a current date block? I know there's a way of doing so, I just haven;t found the corredct way to do it.

I've also looked for the file location block attribute. I know it exists cuz the architect in this office used to have it. When he quit, he took it out of the pc's =/

anywho, any info on these two thingies would be more than greatly appretiated

I'm using Archtiectural Desktop 2.0

Freddy

Do you mean plot-stamp? Shows up in the corner of the drawing showing file name, location and time/date when printed? If so it is built in AutoCAD.

F7

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would anyone know how to make a current date block? I know there's a way of doing so, I just haven;t found the corredct way to do it.

I've also looked for the file location block attribute. I know it exists cuz the architect in this office used to have it. When he quit, he took it out of the pc's =/

anywho, any info on these two thingies would be more than greatly appretiated

I'm using Archtiectural Desktop 2.0

Freddy

Do you mean plot-stamp? Shows up in the corner of the drawing showing file name, location and time/date when printed? If so it is built in AutoCAD.

F7

F7 is binded to grid on/grid off, at least in Architectural Desktop

[f700es]

would anyone know how to make a current date block? I know there's a way of doing so, I just haven;t found the corredct way to do it.

I've also looked for the file location block attribute. I know it exists cuz the architect in this office used to have it. When he quit, he took it out of the pc's =/

anywho, any info on these two thingies would be more than greatly appretiated

I'm using Archtiectural Desktop 2.0

Freddy

Do you mean plot-stamp? Shows up in the corner of the drawing showing file name, location and time/date when printed? If so it is built in AutoCAD.

F7

F7 is binded to grid on/grid off, at least in Architectural Desktop

no, F7 is my screen name
Were you refering to plot-stamp?

F7

[CADTutor]

In AutoCAD there are various time/date options.

The TIME command can be used as follows:

TIME displays the following information: 

Current time:	Wednesday, September 03, 1997 at 9:54:51:406 AM
Times for this drawing:	
      Created:	Friday, July 25, 1994 at 1:21:36:203 AM
      Last Updated:	Wednesday, September 03, 1997 at 9:49:19:208 AM
      Total Editing Time:	0 days 06:44:10.520
      Elapsed Timer (on):	0 days 00:07:05.312
      Next Automatic Save In:	0 days 01:59:15.570

Since each of these options is also a system variable, they could be called from a LISP routine and added to a drawing as text or an attribute value.

The system variable CDATE stores the current date and gives a response like this:
CDATE = 20030106.22273813 (read only)

The system variable SAVENAME stores the name and path of the current drawing when it has been saved and gives a response like this:
SAVENAME = "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\CADTutor..." (read only)

This only works after a save in the current drawing session. Using SAVENAME on opening an existing file gives the response:
SAVENAME = "" (read only)

Not particularly helpful.

However, using a bit of lisp, you could easily use these two variables to do what you need.

[SyntaxError]

well, I work for an even planning and management company in Downtown Miami. Cool. When you have one client per day, changing the date is not really a hassle at all. Or 5 or even 10. But when you get to having to print current dates on 75+ clients per day, having a script like in Microfot Word, that will automatically update the date, be it in a block with a date attribute, or something, taking it from the Windows OS system date, or probably having the title block on my root CAD folder and X-Refing it into all the drawings are optiongs I've pondered, being that I'm doing the work 3 people used to, in 1/3 the time they were given. Now, X-refing it, would imply I'd have to go though each and every drawing, and that is a LOT of work, which I've been trying to avoid =/

so, there's the situation. I hate golf tournaments :evil: ok, not hate, but greatly dislike. 75+ clients on 4 different tournaments is somewhat reather getting to me. From studying architecture, to working doing table layouts, well, it's what I was expecting when I got to miami

so, comments, anything

Freddy

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would anyone know how to make a current date block? I know there's a way of doing so, I just haven;t found the corredct way to do it.

I've also looked for the file location block attribute. I know it exists cuz the architect in this office used to have it. When he quit, he took it out of the pc's =/

anywho, any info on these two thingies would be more than greatly appretiated

I'm using Archtiectural Desktop 2.0

Freddy

Do you mean plot-stamp? Shows up in the corner of the drawing showing file name, location and time/date when printed? If so it is built in AutoCAD.

F7

F7 is binded to grid on/grid off, at least in Architectural Desktop

no, F7 is my screen name
Were you refering to plot-stamp?

F7

as far as saying that, I'd have no clue. Although I've been working on AutoCad Since R12 for DOS, I've never really had the necesity to know how to work those details and inner workings of AutoCad/Arch Desktop. The manuals don;t really help, and this is the only site that anyone seems to at least have an idea what they're talking about

ez

Fredz

[f700es]

would anyone know how to make a current date block? I know there's a way of doing so, I just haven;t found the corredct way to do it.

I've also looked for the file location block attribute. I know it exists cuz the architect in this office used to have it. When he quit, he took it out of the pc's =/

anywho, any info on these two thingies would be more than greatly appretiated

I'm using Archtiectural Desktop 2.0

Freddy

Do you mean plot-stamp? Shows up in the corner of the drawing showing file name, location and time/date when printed? If so it is built in AutoCAD.

F7

F7 is binded to grid on/grid off, at least in Architectural Desktop

no, F7 is my screen name
Were you refering to plot-stamp?

F7

as far as saying that, I'd have no clue. Although I've been working on AutoCad Since R12 for DOS, I've never really had the necesity to know how to work those details and inner workings of AutoCad/Arch Desktop. The manuals don;t really help, and this is the only site that anyone seems to at least have an idea what they're talking about

ez

Fredz

R12 Nice! I started on r10 on Dos as well. Big change since those days. Yeah, those manuals are pretty weak. I see what you are talking about now and I am sure somebody will come up with a solution for you. This is one of the best AutoCAD user site out there bar none! Welcome aboard.

F7

[Mr T]

Post a message for 'Fuccaro', he seems to be a bit of a AutoLISP genius.

'By the way' (Glasgow Slang) how deep can these nested posts get ?

Nick

PS Updated my tips section on my site www.autocadzone.com

[gcp310]

there is a great little program called ltext.
its free somewhere on the net,and it updates with every save or plot.
there are many options that you can set,not just the date,but others like,who plotted the dwg,dwg location,etc.

it was passed on to us by a friend,its really simple to set up, create a block with the desired text and leave it in block form on your title block.
then when you plot/save, the block changes automatic.

dot know where we got it from. i will check the program later today and fine out who wrote it.

G