The alternative is marking the checkbox in the Readers Format Attributes.
This option adds attributes like autocad_layer_color to the features.
This and other attributes are hidden by default,you only need to expose them with the AttributeExposer to see them as columns.When connecting an inspector to the output port you see the attributes in the Feature Information dock.
By double clicking the value of the hidden attribute value,you can copy paste the hidden attribute name to the exposer.