After you select Parameters from the selection tree in the left part of the Table printout manager dialog, the options shown below display on the right.
The dialog contains all the variables defined in the system and their names.
Variables used for formatting the header and footer of the printout:
VAR_PAGE_NUMBER - lets you assign a current printout page. If VAR_PAGE_TOTAL is used, text assigned to the variable will precede the total number of pages (for example, Page 1, Page 2, and so on)
VAR_PAGE_TOTAL - value of this variable indicates the total number of printout pages. Text assigned to it may be preceded by a current page number, if the VAR_PAGE_NUMBER variable is used.
VAR_DATE, VAR_TIME - these variables may be assigned any text and combination of the key words displayed below (prints the current date/time on a printout):
%A - full week day name (Monday)
%a - abbreviated week day name (Mon)
%B - full month name (January)
%b - abbreviated month name (Jan)
%c - standard presentation of date and time
%H - time (24-hour clock) (00-23)
%I - time (12-hour clock) (01-12)
%j - successive day of the year (001-366)
%p - local equivalent of the English abbreviations AM / PM
%U - successive week of the year (first day - Sunday) (00-53)
%W - successive week of the year (first day - Monday) (00-53)
%w - day of the week (0-6, Sunday is denoted by 0)
%X - standard time representation
%x - standard date representation
%y - year without the century specified (00-99)
Standard date representation is the following string of variables: %a %b %d %Y
Standard time representation is the following string of variables: %H:%M:%S
Standard date and time representation is the following string of variables: %a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y.
The remaining variables listed below do not contain other values than user-defined text. Their names serve only for the purpose of convenient classification while formatting.
The following printout variables may be used in Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing - Reinforcement:
VAR_INV_ADDRESS - investor address
VAR_INV_PHONE - investor phone
VAR_INV_EMAIL - investor e-mail address
VAR_OFF_NAME - design office name
VAR_OFF_ADDRESS - design office address
VAR_OFF_PHONE - design office phone
VAR_OFF_FAX - design office fax
VAR_OFF_EMAIL - design office e-mail address
VAR_FILE - name of a DWG file including a drawing
VAR_LOGO - access path to a BMP file
You can also use these variables when creating your own printout layouts. When you insert such a layout, the software will automatically fill out variables with values specified in the table printout manager.
The following printout variables may be used in Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing - Steel:
VAR_QUANTITY - number of items of a given position in the project
