Diesel Expressions
Looking for Diesel Expressions to use with the RTEXT command? Reactive text (Express Tools – RTEXT) objects are displayed the same way normal Text or MText objects are displayed, but the source for the text is either an external text file or the value of a DIESEL expression. You can edit an RText object with the RTEDIT command.
Why use RTEXT? We used to write legal descriptions in a Word document and save the file as “MS DOS Text with Line Breaks” (depending upon the version of Word you are using, this exact language varies). The document can be linked to AutoCAD via RTEXT, updated externally, and with a redraw, the text is updated – very nice!
Many of us still use RTEXT with diesel strings for plot stamps, examples follow:
Plotted by: $(upper,$(getvar,”loginname”))
Drawing: $(upper,$(getvar,”dwgprefix”)$(getvar,”dwgname”))
Layout Tab: $(upper,$(getvar,”ctab”))
Xrefs: $(upper,$(xrefs , ,))
Images: $(upper,$(images , ,))
Date: $(edtime,$(getvar,date),MO/DD/YYYY)
Time: $(edtime,$(getvar,date),HH:MM:SS AM/PM)
Plotted by: $(upper,$(getvar,”loginname”))
File Created: $(edtime,$(getvar,tdcreate),DDD”, “D MON YYYY)
File Last Updated: $(edtime,$(getvar,tdupdate),DDD”, “D MON YYYY)
Today’s Date: $(edtime,$(getvar,date),DDD”, “D MON YYYY)
Cheers!
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Scott, it seems some of these have been replaced with “sheet set fields.” Will you take a look at my post to the LDD user group: post by jj3750, titled “Using Fields for plan & profile notes”
Thanks,
fyi: stumbled on your blog in researching about Diesel and rtext.
Most, if not all, of the RTEXT Diesel strings haved been replaced by fields. The post came as a result of many users who as fancy as fields are, really wanted to stick with older versions of AutoCAD. And in their peculiar environment(s), it was the right thing to do.