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More Tuesday TipsĬheck out our whole Tuesday Tips Series for ideas on how to make AutoCAD work for you. They’re easy to create, they’re customizable to the info you want to display, and, most importantly, they can save you some major headaches. If you’re experiencing confusion in your office about which plot is the most current, who created it, or even where you can locate the file, then you need to be using Plot Stamps.

For our application, you may also want to check out the Date & Time and the Plot Field categories. Note all the different formatting options.

Not sure exactly how to use Fields? Check out Brandon’s awesome Tuesday Tip or this post from the AutoCAD team, and you’ll soon be an expert.įor the above example, I get the drawing name info from the Document > Filename field. Define the location, text height, and style in your title block drawing, then apply the appropriate Field to the portion of the text you want to display. Plus, it’s much more flexible, and it is visible in the actual drawing file.Ĭreating this type of Plot Stamp is as easy as writing a line or two of MTEXT. Fieldsīelow is a typical stamp I’ve used before. There is another way to create Plot Stamps, which is my preference, as I can customize the stamp to my needs. This is a good starting point, and certainly better than nothing, but it is a bit limited both in information available to display and flexibility in formatting. Once set up, you’ll get a stamp on your plots that may look similar to this: This is another way to get to the main Plot Stamp dialog in addition to going through Options. However, you do have to tell the Plot command to turn it on by checking the box as shown below in the right-side (expanded) area of the plot dialog.Īlso note that a stamp icon will appear when checked. When using the built-in Plot Stamp function, you won’t actually see the stamp in your drawing file, but it will show up when you plot. You’ll get a second dialog where you can define things such as the location, the orientation, font, units, etc. To further define your Plot Stamp display, click on the Advanced button. You’ll get the Settings dialog as shown below, where you can choose the fields you want to display, add your own, and save or load an existing parameters file.

From the Plot and Publish tab, click on the Plot Stamp Settings button. You can access it from the Options dialog. There are a couple of ways to add a plot stamp to your drawings, which I’ll discuss here. Using a plot stamp is a simple way to avoid mistakes and confusion with multiple plots of the same drawing. It seems strange here in 2019, but I still see companies that don’t use a plot stamp on their construction drawings.

Architecture, Engineering and Construction.

Architecture, Engineering & Construction.