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Automatic drawing label - filename, date, author...

Using the text fields introduced back in AutoCAD 2005 you can easily create an automatic block to label your drawing with the information about its file name and path, last save date and author, and last plot date.

See an example - in your AutoCAD drawing enter the INSERT command, click the Browse button, press Alt+3 (Search Web) and in the lower address field enter the URL address http://www.xanadu.cz/dl/xstamp2005.dwg. Alternatively, use the commandline version of the command: _-INSERT http://www.xanadu.cz/dl/xstamp2005.dwg.
This will insert a block containing predefined automatic text fields - these fields will be updated on any save and plot.

You can also try the Net_ID dynamic block.

ACAD2010ACAD2008ACAD2005MapADTLT

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22.9.2009 1911x

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applies to: AutoCAD 2010 · AutoCAD 2008 · AutoCAD 2005 · AutoCAD Map · AutoCAD Architecture · AutoCAD LT ·

See also:
Tip 7249:	How to select all drawing entities containing a given text?
Tip 7003:	Modified drawing name as an automatic field.
Tip 6795:	FieldLink to display links between fields and objects.
Tip 6644:	Displaying layout name in dynamic text fields.
Tip 6559:	Arithmetic expressions in AutoCAD dimensions.

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