AutoCAD 2004/2005/2006 DWG Format

[#1]

Can i use a field that will get only the last syllable of the filename?
Thanks.

[#2]

what's the last part of the filename? Something consistent
and identifiable, or is it a moving target?

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[#3]

No it's a moving target, the first part is the one which is constant and that's why we want to eleminate it in the title block, the file name is something like that:
AAAAA-BCDDEE (with the exact no. of characters)
where the 5As refer to the project no. which is of course constant for all dwgs in that project, and that's the part we want to eleminate.

[#4]

anyone has the answer?
i believe it's possible, may be some diesel expert can help.

[#5]

Hi,

May be possible, if you use RTEXT instead of Fields. Use following DIESEL Expressions to get the system variables:

1) $(getvar,dwgprefix)
2) $(getvar,dwgname)

Truncate the required characters from the above using DIESEL language.

Regards,
Pradeep Hebbar

[#6]

I said i need a diesel expert to help me, not to tell me use diesel language, i know nothing about this language.
anyway thanks a lot for telling me its possible.
Also, couldn't diesel expressions be passed inside fields?

[#7]

Hi,

I hope this is the exact DIESEL Expression to suit your requirement.
Copy & paste the following expression in RTEXT.

$(substr,$(getvar,dwgname),6,$(strlen,$(getvar,dwgname)))

Note that I have used 6, as the 5 first characters to be truncated. (You wanted to remove initial 5A's)

Regards,
Pradeep Hebbar

[#8]

That's awesome.
Thanks a lot.

[#9]

Now, i found one more problem, not the dwgname have ".dwg" at the end, can i eleminate the last 4 characters as well?
Thanks in advance.

[#10]

Hi,

Here is a try.

$(substr,$(getvar,dwgname),6,$(-,$(strlen,$(getvar,dwgname)) ,9))

5+4=9 characters are stripped off from the Filename.

Make sure that the above 2 statements appear in single line inside Field/ RTEXT.

Regards,
Pradeep Hebbar