Showing a location for saved drawing on Attributes

Hello,

I'm pretty sure this has probably been asked before, however I cannot locate it!

I want to set up an attribute that automatically shows the location of the saved drawing.

An example is shown in the attached file.

Many thanks,

Mark

Sorry, the attached image is here.

a field will do this. Probably best to include this in your drawing blank as a piece of tEXT or MTEXT. Right click while in your text editor and select Insert Field. In the "All" or "Documents" category is the Filename object. This has options for including path & extension.

Having typed all that I notice you are using 2005 - I wasn't aware of fields until after that release in which case you may have to use a diesel expression - which I am not too familiar with.

Its AutoCAD 2009, I need to update that bit.

Will give it a go.

Many thanks,

Mark

a field will do this. Probably best to include this in your drawing blank as a piece of tEXT or MTEXT. Right click while in your text editor and select Insert Field. In the "All" or "Documents" category is the Filename object. This has options for including path & extension.

 

Having typed all that I notice you are using 2005 - I wasn't aware of fields until after that release in which case you may have to use a diesel expression - which I am not too familiar with.

Worked a treat, thanks very much!

glad to have helped. I had quite a struggle to get that hard coded into our latest drawing blank but I have won (so far).

Is it possible to make this cover 2 lines?

Thanks,

Mark

not sure. I assume an MTEXT box will allow wrapping but I don't know if it will break words or just wrap at spaces.

I don't think there is an option without looking.

Altough it is in an MTEXT format, it is not possible to have text wrapping, just a long line with the file path.

Update, created the filed.

Then created a field.

Copied the field into the MTEXT and you are able to wrap it so that it covers more than one line.