logging "active" drafting time in a dwg

[Anonymous]

I would think many people thought about this. The drawing timer in a
drawing just keeps track of how long a drawing has been open, whether your
working in it or not. This does give a good representation of the time
actually spent drafting. If you want to be more specific in logging the
"active" drafting time, how would one do that???
Logging this more accurately, would help a great deal for estimating time
for a job, broken down by sheet or drawing. Anybody thought about this or
have any ideas?? Thanks in advance!!

bduchateau@hoffman.net

[Anonymous]

If you really need to track sheet by sheet (boy am I glad I don't work for
you, haha), then I would recommend writing a simple lisp routine that turns
on and off the timer but the user would have to remember to do so. Sounds
like a hassle to me though.

I can't think of any other ways unless you place a trigger under their chair
that stops the drawing when they get up to go to the restroom or place one
on their phone for when they get a call.




"Brett DuChateau" wrote in message
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> I would think many people thought about this. The drawing timer in a
> drawing just keeps track of how long a drawing has been open, whether your
> working in it or not. This does give a good representation of the time
> actually spent drafting. If you want to be more specific in logging the
> "active" drafting time, how would one do that???
> Logging this more accurately, would help a great deal for estimating time
> for a job, broken down by sheet or drawing. Anybody thought about this or
> have any ideas?? Thanks in advance!!
>
> bduchateau@hoffman.net
>
>
>

[Anonymous]

Along these same lines, does anyone remember a product called AutoJournal -
it wrote Autocad info tot he Outlook Journal. It worked great in r14, and I
tried to get it to work in later releases, I even excahged several emails
with the guy that made it, but I've lost track of his address, and he seems
to have abandoned the product.

It would be nice if that would re-appear, fully functional, and with some
form of "Active window only" tracking, such as you are describing.

Even better would be if Autodesk decides to make an extension that performs
the same function, so it's not considered a third party product, and we can
avoid all the blame dodging if there is a problem.

"Kevin" wrote in message
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> If you really need to track sheet by sheet (boy am I glad I don't work for
> you, haha), then I would recommend writing a simple lisp routine that
turns
> on and off the timer but the user would have to remember to do so. Sounds
> like a hassle to me though.
>
> I can't think of any other ways unless you place a trigger under their
chair
> that stops the drawing when they get up to go to the restroom or place one
> on their phone for when they get a call.
>
>
>
>
> "Brett DuChateau" wrote in message
> news:E7492AC80B88B2D07C3B8BF9B0E463B5@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > I would think many people thought about this. The drawing timer in a
> > drawing just keeps track of how long a drawing has been open, whether
your
> > working in it or not. This does give a good representation of the time
> > actually spent drafting. If you want to be more specific in logging the
> > "active" drafting time, how would one do that???
> > Logging this more accurately, would help a great deal for estimating
time
> > for a job, broken down by sheet or drawing. Anybody thought about this
or
> > have any ideas?? Thanks in advance!!
> >
> > bduchateau@hoffman.net
> >
> >
> >
>
>

[Anonymous]

I've been working on a similar product for the past month or so, but for my own purpose only, to track jobs I've worked on. I'm only a low level programmer and it doesn't have much in the way of customisation, but it does what I want. I will load it up into the Customer Files for you to have a look at. I've also uploaded it to www.cadalog.com today, so if you feel like rating it for me, feel free.
It might take a few days for them to put it on their site though.

Chad.

[Anonymous]

I'll look for it.  Thanks

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I've
been working on a similar product for the past month or so, but for my own
purpose only, to track jobs I've worked on. I'm only a low level programmer
and it doesn't have much in the way of customisation, but it does what I want.
I will load it up into the Customer Files for you to have a look at. I've also
uploaded it to www.cadalog.com today, so if you feel like rating it for me,
feel free.
It might take a few days for them to put it on their site
though.

Chad.