Fields: The Basics

Posted September 11, 2008 * Comments(2)

Type FIELD on the command line and you will get this box:

Select a field name and format, such as the date field in this case, and the final result will look something like:

When you use the FIELD command AutoCAD actually creates a field inside a multiline text (MTEXT) object. You can edit this by double-clicking on the object (or type DDEDIT), and then double-clicking again on the field itself. This will bring the Field dialog box back up where you can make modifications.

Learn more about fields…

2 Comments so far

  1. vikash gupta on September 15th, 2008

    dear sir,
    i m student of AutoCAD
    pls send me full details regarding
    some command that co-related with AutoCAD..
    i write all command i which i feel problem : pls answar me regarding the same or if u have some web link pls send me so i read abt more abt AutoCAD subject ..

    problematic commands r listed below:
    dblock, field, vlide

    pls send me detail if u have
    i very great ful to u

    thanking u

    regards
    vikash gupta
    {engineering student )

  2. Josh Jones on September 16th, 2008

    vikash gupta,

    Thank you for your comment.

    dblock – are you wanting to know more about dynamic blocks?

    field – I plan on posting more about fields. Do you have any specific questions about fields?

    vlide – I am not very experienced with Visual Lisp but I can point you to some good websites that talk about it. For starters check out Afralisp.net

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