AutoCAD 2005 and higher versions.

FIELD feature in Microsoft™ Word program is also added in AutoCAD™  by 2005 version. Fields are extremely useful while preparing drawings with letterheads. Those fields that is marked with gray in Fig. 1 are stored in AutoCAD™  with special variables and they can be placed at any location inside the drawing with any text style. Before looking at how they are drawn, let’s refresh our knowledge about the drawing properties. Window shown in Fig. 2 is opened up if we choose “Drawing Properties…“.

Fig. 1 

 

Fig. 2

This window is composed of 4 tabs. We are already familiar with them from office programs. You can create your own properties related to the drawing from the Custom tab on the right end side. Later on, we will use these as fields. You can rearrange all of the data related to the letterheads in your drawings from here. As an example, I created a field named as CONTROL. We will add this to the drawing later. From the Summary tab of the same window, you can also reach fields like the names of people who make the drawing. Now, let’s add these fields into the drawing.

Fig. 3

 

( Window shown in Fig. 3 will open up) Left side of this window is reserved for the fields that are existing in the drawing. By choosing category from the category list, we can limit the number of the fields enlisted every time. In the example view, information related to the document is chosen. In example Fig. 1, Author and Control ( Fig. 2 ) fields are used. On the right side there are the options that are listed for us to choose the format of text of our field. And on the bottom part, there is the formulized way of these variables and parameters. Once you get used to it, you can also manually enter these expressions while you are writing a text with MTEXT command. After adjusting the settings, we can place the text into the drawing just like placing a block. After adding the fields, you can rearrange the values of properties like text style, text height etc.. by the Properties tool palette. At any stage of drawing, if you have updated your fields by DWGPROPS command; in order for the changes to take effect, you can use UPDATEFIELD command or Tools/Update Fields menu.

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