Listing of author

[Noshiro]

Hi,
I know you can find out who is the author of a drawing. But is it possible to find out who drew a line? Like in Bluebeam, every line that is created, it creates a log of who drew it at what time etc. is there such a thing in autocad?

[Tom Beauford]

To keep track of who drew every object and did every modification could easily increase the size of a drawing a thousand times. I don't think a PC that could open a detail drawing continuously modified over 20 years like that has been created yet.

[cadtag]

What would be possible, would be to create a textfile that tracked the date, loginname of whomever opened the drawing, and the handle of the last entity created when opening the drawing.
since handles are unique and sequential, it's pretty simple to write out "20151106,jonesk,25547" via acaddoc.lsp. That will tell you who opened the file, when they did it, and the unique ID of that last object that was in the file. If you list any object in the drawing that has a handle <greater> than the handle in the file, it was created by jonesk.


Softddesk used to do this, and it was occasionally useful.

[dgorsman]

I've done a couple of quiet tracking routines for school work, tagging everything by user name. So it is possible (and doesn't drastically increase file size), just not out of the box.