Field

Works with Bricscad (Windows) Classic, Pro and Platinum, Bricscad (Linux) Classic and Pro

Inserts a field in a multiline text, table cell or attribute.

A field is variable text to display data such as drawing properties (filename, save date, ...), entity properties (Length, Area, Layer, ...) user defined properties, plot settings and variables.

If no value is available, hyphens display (----)

Accessing the Command

command bar: field

alias: none

menu bar: Insert| Insert Field

toolbar: Draw 2D|

: field

Displays a dialog box:

Choose field, then click OK.

Prompts you in the command bar:

Specify start point or [Height/Justify]

Command Options

Option

Description

Height

Specifies the text height.

Specify height <current height>

Justify

Sets the text justification.

Enter justification [TL/TC/TR/ML/MC/MR/BL/BC/BR]<Top Left>

Related Commands

AttDef - defines how a block's attributes will be created through a dialog box.

Dwgprops - opens the Drawing Properties dialog box, showing the general information and user defined properties stored with a drawing.

Mtext and -MText - places paragraph text.

Updatefield - updates fields in the selected Mtext entities.

Table - creates a table entity in the drawing.