About Date and Time Stamps

You can track drawing revisions by inserting information that identifies the file name, time and date of the revision, and the name of the person who revised it.

The revision information is inserted in the form of attributes that have been saved in a block named REVDATE, and it is automatically updated as needed. The attributes contain the information; the block is a named grouping of the attributes. The attributes are

If you don't insert the date and time stamp when you create the drawing, you can insert it later. A block is inserted at the point you specify. If necessary, you can explode this block and reposition the individual attributes. By then saving the newly positioned attributes as a block named REVDATE, you can ensure that they will be updated whenever you use REVDATE.

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You can also use the Block Editor to modify the REVDATE block.

By default, the user name used by the date and time stamp is the name specified during installation. If a different person works on the drawing, you can change the name used by REVDATE.

You can also change the time and date formats by choosing the Regional Settings icon in the Windows Control Panel folder.