AutoCAD® 2012 and AutoCAD LT® 2012 Essentials: Autodesk® Official Training Guide

Using Fields in Table Cells

Fields are variables that are inserted into blocks of text that can change what they display over time. For example, you can insert a date field onto a title block that will update to show the current date every time the drawing is plotted. You can also link fields to objects in the drawing so that the field will display any one of the object properties. In the following steps, you will insert fields into cells within the table you designed in the previous section:

1. If the file is not already open, go to the book's web page, browse to Chapter 15, get the file Ch15-D.dwg or Ch15-D-metric.dwg, and open it.
2. Select cell ...