topic Re: Author Attribute in AutoCAD Forum

Author Attribute

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:35:28 GMT

Hello! I am creating a title block that includes prompted entry and autopopulating fields. One of the fields I would like to populate is the "drawing author" field. I have selected the attribute to display the author of the drawing; but when I save the drawing, the field only shows "----". I think the reason for this is because it grabs the Author from DWGPROPS, which you would have to manually input. Is there a way that Autocad can display the author in the same way it does for the "lastsavedby" attribute? I want it to display the computer user who first generated the file without having to manually input it in the DWGPROPS first.

Thanks for your help!

Re: Author Attribute

leothebuilder — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:31:27 GMT

Because the DWG property for "author" is a manual property there is no way to populate this automatically without some external programming.

Re: Author Attribute

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:15:57 GMT

It just seems silly that they would have a field for "LASTSAVEDBY" and not "FIRSTSAVEDBY"...

Re: Author Attribute

pendean — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:19:33 GMT

"FIRSTSAVEDBY" is almost never a criteria for the majority of users or companies in CAD: unless you are a lawyer 🙂

Re: Author Attribute

leothebuilder — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 20:29:38 GMT

@pendean wrote:
"FIRSTSAVEDBY" is almost never a criteria for the majority of users or companies in CAD: unless you are a lawyer 🙂

Funny you should mention that. We have situation where a pack of lawyers is fighting over the origins of a bunch of cad files that an ex employee is alledged to have taken from our server.

Re: Author Attribute

pendean — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:33:24 GMT

"Digital signature" in AutoCAD may be something you all look into for the future if this type of thing proves to be something you all require moving forward.

Re: Author Attribute

Volker_C — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 23:29:41 GMT

It appears that Dean and Leo answered this question. I'd recommend putting a feature request in with the AutoCAD Product Team.

Cheers!

Volker