Diesel Expression (automated sheet numbers)

[Anonymous]

I am trying to design a Diesel Expression to insert the Revision letter for each sheet of the drawing by fetching it from the layout tab at the bottom of the drawing window (P.S.- I am using AutoCAD 2015).  How can I access the information in these tabs?

[msanford.ail · Accepted solution]

You could use a field to populate the revision based on the tab contents

[Anonymous]

That is actually exactly what I'm trying to do. The problem is that I don't know how to reference the tab name in the Diesel Expression.

Andy Tannen (US)

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[Anonymous]

That is actually exactly what I'm trying to do. The problem is that I don't know how to reference the tab name in the Diesel Expression.

Andy Tannen (US)

Sr. Electrical Engineer
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23535 Cottonwood Parkway
California, Maryland 20619
(301) 862-7252
andrew.tannen@baesystems.com

[rkmcswain · Accepted solution]

$(getvar, ctab)

[Anonymous]

Add a field in a text

$(substr,$(getvar,ctab),$(-,$(strlen,$(getvar,ctab)),1),2)

This case will use the last digits from de tab name.