topic Re: Title Block Initials Attribute in Fusion Support Forum

Title Block Initials Attribute

jlalevee — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:45:19 GMT

Is there a way to have user initials as a title block attribute? I know about the DrawnBy attribute, but full names take up too much space on our block and we don't want to share draftsman's names externally - initials are widely accepted as the industry standard for drawings.

Right now we have a custom attribute set, but I am tired of coworkers updating my drawings without changing to their initials, and then production coming to me with issues on a drawing I didn't make.

Re: Title Block Initials Attribute

mohammed.aliTDPXK — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:04:17 GMT

Hello @jlalevee ,

Just wanted to check how you want the initials attribute to get set? I will check with the team on this.

Few questions

Initially if you have created drawings, it will under your initials?
Now when any of your coworkers updates it, you want it to get it assigned in their name?

Re: Title Block Initials Attribute

jlalevee — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:29:15 GMT

Hi Mohammed,

Thanks for getting back to me on this.

Initially if you have created drawings, it will under your initials? Yes - creating a drawing would populate with the initials of the person making the drawing. (right now we do this with our own copies of our drawing template saved out with our initials - kinda a pain to update all of them whenever we change our title blocks).
Now when any of your coworkers updates it, you want it to get it assigned in their name? - Yes - similar behavior to how in the file manager you can see who saved each version of a document:
I would imagine if this feature were to work the way I think it would the data would be pulled from here - populate the initials of the user saving the document. We do this in our title block now. Be neat if user initials could be set like a system preference, like units, per user's machine.

We currently use the "%<\AcVar SaveDate \f "M/d/yy">%" trick to get the date to update on save - I think the default date attribute is the creation date. Having this functionality with initials would be nice too - I could see where you would want the original draftsman's initials in a block somewhere, but also have the last saved draftsman's initials somewhere else.

Thanks for listening, seeing this feature implemented would be a nice QOL update.

Re: Title Block Initials Attribute

mohammed.aliTDPXK — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:10:10 GMT

Hello @jlalevee ,

I have added an improvement request(FUS-228101). Team mentioned with custom attrinutes tis can be achieved manually as you are already trying, Thanks for reproting this improvement. I cannot assure you if this will be added in Fusion but this has reached the team.

Thanks!

Re: Title Block Initials Attribute

jlalevee — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:45:24 GMT

Thanks for listening! Just thought I'd mention it.