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Draft date autoupdate

Draft date autoupdate

Draft date autoupdate

(OP)
Hi all.

Is it possible to have the date field in the properties box on a drawing update to the present date automatically? At the moment I need to use properties manager each time if I want to update it.

Also, by default the author field gets filled with my login name to windows (i.e. a short lowercase username), is it not possible to have it be populated with my full name instead?

Thanks

RE: Draft date autoupdate

I'm not sure how you have it set up, but you can use Property Text to pull a variety of info automatically including things like the 'modified' date or the 'last printed' date. Actually a whole lot of things you can do with it. Now to directly answer your question, using the Property Text property of 'accessed' should provide you with the current date since you accessed the file to open it...

On another note, you might try asking questions like this at the Siemens PLM Solid Edge Community site: http://community.plm.automation.siemens.com/t5/Sol...

Ken G.
http://grundey.blogspot.com

RE: Draft date autoupdate

(OP)
Thanks for the responses. The "modified" date would be ideal I think, I'll have to have a try tomorrow though.

I'm not worried about the dates auto updating since I normally save a pdf of the drawing if I'm happy which is permanent.

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