Drawing sheet Variables

This command trans­fers general functional information such as page descriptions into a project summary. You can enter and automatically manage 10 general vari­ables (0 … 9) as well as variables for ‘Page number’, ‘Page quantity’, ‘Date’, ‘Time’ (year 2000 compliant), ‘File name long’, ‘File name short’, ‘Next page’, and ‘Previous page’.  They can then be distributed throughout the whole drawing set.  In the case of the variable ‘File name long’, the full name, con­sisting of drive directories and file name is copied across.  In the case of ‘File name short’, only the file name itself is copied.

The numerals in the file name extension gives the page number; the page quantity is the file name extension of the final page

The text is always displayed on a single line and the length is limited to 48 characters

The variables ‘File name short/long’ and ‘Variables 0 to 9’ are distributed to all the pages when the Automatic function is acti­vated, whereas the other variables such as the Page numbers are set on-line. When this command is activated, the following dialog appears, containing all the variables of the active drawing window.  Thus you can see at a glance all the variables for this page.