As autocad now has +500 system variables. ??????
REALLY
a good ideal would be to list all of the system variables in the help file
and give examples of what they do - so users can be more productive.
as i have looked for the variable ATTIPE in the 2014 civil 3d help and it is not there . . . .
why?
why have something and not document it?
and yes, i really do want an answer from an organic life form that is an employee with Autocad.
thanks,
Charles A. Hall, eit / designer
cad user since 1993.
There were almost 1000 system variables a few years ago, so it's probably around that number now, certainly a lot more than 500.
The ATTIPE command is in the C3D 2014 documentation, right here.
All most of the sysvars are documented here also.
Help is terrible.
Nothing we can do about it.
End of story.
Type in SYSVDLG. It will bring up a list of EVERY system variable and a relatively decent explanation of what they do.
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
Changing this to "Solution Provided" because ATTIPE is in the help system, and SYSVDLG is a nice way to see all the system variables listed with help about what they do. That seemed to be the two main issues here.
The other implied comment from the thread is that there are too many system variables in AutoCAD. I agree there are lots of system variables in AutoCAD.
Regards,
Peter Funk
Sr Product Manager
Organic Life Form
Civil 3D
Autodesk, Inc.
I went to the 2014 help, clicked search and typed in attipe. The first listing was the ATTIPE system variable.
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
thank you for stating the ovious,
now, find ATTIPE under ATTRIBUTE TEXT
as that is where the normal cad user would be searching.
and if you find a reference to ATTIPE there i would lilke to see a screen shot.
thank you.
the original question was "how to create an attribute text with multiple lines of text?"
so, the normal cad user would search what?
attribute text and multiline text - agreed?
now with those two search items find ATTIPE mentioned.
my problem is - ATTIPE is not documented in the attribute text help. Why?
because it is a SYSTEM VARIABLE.
and system variables are listed seperately.
Your last comment added more detail. The first message said nothing of needing this in the ATTRIBUTE text -- just that you had looked in the C3D Help. And that's what I based my comments on.
Charles, I don't have C3D2014 but in 2016 I searched for "multiline attribute" and got this:
That being said, I do agree that the documentation could use a LOT of work. One of the biggest things that would be of immediate benfit is making sure that all Sysvars which affect a command or object should be noted as such within each command's or object's help section.
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