Field

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:  Insert |

: field

Displays a dialog box:

Choose field, then click OK.

Prompts you in the command bar:

Specify start point or [Height/Justify]

Command Options

Procedures

General procedure to create fields

To display an entity property in a field

To edit a field

To update a field

Related Commands

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

AttRedef - redefines a block and updates associated attributes.

AttSync - synchronizes attribute definitions in all block references of a specified block definition.

BattMan - manages the attributes of a block definition.

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.