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Anonymous
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Is there a maximum comment length?

In the DWGPROPS Summary tab, is there a limit to the length of the Comments field?

pendean
en respuesta a: Anonymous

And you're not even remotely interested in finding out for yourself in a quick test on your PC?
Or did you and you found out something but hoping we will guess the correct answer? I'm curious about your post.
Anonymous
en respuesta a: pendean

Is this a troll?

 

Of course I've tried to find out for myself.

 

 

 

I'd like to understand the specification of the underlying field to determine if the behaviour we are experiencing is correct or otherwise.

 

Try searching for AutoCAD text/field/comment maximum length in online help or Google and see how hard it is to find a specification.

 

 

john.vellek
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Hi @Anonymous,

 

I agree that this information seems impossible to find.I tried to find documentation internally and couldn't find the specification either.  I even went to the point of typing in characters. Once I put in 300 I gave up!

 

What are you trying to do with this field and/or what kind of issue are you experiencing? Is there something that I can help research for you?


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dbroad
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Here is an easy way to automatically generate text and test yourself.  I did and will report the results.  In a Word document, enter =rand(1,100).  This will automatically give you 100 sentences and over 8000 characters.  Copy and paste into the autocad comments field.  Then start a new word document, copy the pasted text from the comments field and paste it back into the new Word document.  Then do Review->Word Count.

 

If you don't have Word, try http://www.lipsum.com/

 

 

Results:  4000 characters with spaces included.

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Anonymous
en respuesta a: john.vellek

Hi John,

 

We've started to use the comments as a place to store revision history but suddenly further input was prevented in some drawings.

 

In those drawings, the length of the data varies, for example, 4371 characters over 79 lines and 4544 characters across 82 lines.

 

I'd like to know if this is due to a size limitation or something else.

 

Craig

john.vellek
en respuesta a: Anonymous

HI @Anonymous,

 

According to @dbroad's clever and stealthy approach, 4000 characters seems to be the limitation.

 

Is there a reason you can't create a block with revision information to contain all of this?

For instance, your revision schedule in your drawing might contain a block called rev tag.

 

Rev Tag could have attributes to have No, Date, RevInfo, Comments with the comments section hidden and set to multi-line if necessary.

 

Then you could export using the data extract at every revision Publish date the list into a spreadsheet that you can keep with the project files and folder.

 

This way your information can be stored on each layout (in case you issue different sheets at different times).

 

 

Just a thought


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Anonymous
en respuesta a: john.vellek

Thanks for the suggestions. We will need to use an alternative way to store the information.

john.vellek
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Hi @Anonymous,

 

I am checking back to see if dbroad's or my post helped you with your problem or if you need additional assistance or information. Please add a post with how you decide to proceed and your results so other Community members may benefit.

Please hit the Accept as Solution button if my post fully solves your issue or answers your question.


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Anonymous
en respuesta a: john.vellek

It may be some time before I can provide details of an alternative solution we decide to go with so I'll mark John's suggestion as the answer. 

dbroad
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Though not familiar with your process, I would try to avoid the need to document revisions with such wordiness in the document itself.  A database solution or a document management solution such as alfresco is better suited.  If I spent that much time (implied and assumed) writing up revisions, I would never get anything done.

 

As far as marking solutions, the answer to the thread subject line was in my first post.

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