Identifying Information

You can 0keep track of your drawings more easily if you add keywords or other information to them.

Use Windows Explorer

Drawing properties can help you identify a drawing. Some drawing properties are stored by the operating system; for example, drawing type, location, and size. These values are read-only in the drawing file and can only be changed through Windows Explorer.

Use the Find Tool

The Find tool in a standard file selection dialog box can use this information. For example, you can search for all files created on a certain date, or for files you modified yesterday.

Use DesignCenter

You can create additional properties in drawing files. You can store author, title, and subject, and you can assign keywords, hyperlink addresses or directory paths, and custom properties to your drawings. The Advanced tab in the Search tool in DesignCenter can use these properties to locate drawing files.

Use Sheet Set Manager Properties

With the Sheet Set Manager, you can assign a sheet title, number, and a description to every sheet in a sheet set.

Display Properties in Fields

You can assign any of the drawing properties to a field in a text object.

To display drawing properties for the active drawing

• Click the Application button, and click Drawing Drawing -> Properties.
• In the Drawing Properties dialog box, click tabs to view the different types of information.

To define drawing properties

• Click the Application button, and click Drawing -> Drawing Properties.
• In the Drawing Properties dialog box, enter property information on the following tabs:
• Summary tab. Enter the drawing title, subject, author, keywords, comments, and a default address for hyperlinked data in your drawing. For example, you can add the keyword Autodesk to certain drawing files and then use DesignCenter to search for all drawing files with that keyword. For a hyperlink base, you can specify an Internet address or a path to a folder on a network drive.
• Custom tab. Click Add. In the Add Custom Property dialog box, enter a name and a value for the custom property. Click OK. The new custom property and its value are displayed on the Custom tab. This information can be used for advanced searches in DesignCenter.