AutoCAD Tip: Fields of AutoCAD Dreams (Lynn Allen/Cadalyst Magazine)

Adding fields into your AutoCAD drawings can really save you time. A field is updatable, intelligent text that can change throughout the life cycle of a drawing. Check out Lynn's latest tip to see how easy it is to use fields and ramp up your productivity! (Available in standard AutoCAD for at least ten years.) For more CAD tips, visit www.cadalyst.com.

[@MACIASPAT]

Lynn, thanks to you I learned how powerfull and usefull this fields are . From Colombia I really appreciate your videos!

[@ekoyudi7171]

Hi, Can you help me for this issue, I using Autocad 2018. When I change the size of object and type "REGEN", the figure of the object area wont update. Can you give me solution. Thank you.

[@jab842]

I need a smart block that would allow me to select the insertion point, attribute an object for the Fields Object data and prompt for room name.
setting up the attribute text is easy but I cant figure out how to get a prompt for object for the Fields data nice and quick. Does anyone know how to achieve this?

[@MrHasannsr]

Every tutorial i see easily explains how to get area of a room using fields... Bla bla bla ... I get it ... But what if i want to add length and width of the room using fields ?? What if i want certain details to be updated when i update one thing how dowe do that ??

[@prasannalakki]

mam can i know is there any kind of feature in autocad. for linking the excel to drawing for considering the variables from excel to autocad drawing.....for eg. in excel l=20,b=20
in auto cad it should draw the l=20 and b=200