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Create a custom drawing property

Create a custom drawing property

- [Instructor] When we created our custom project properties, the information that we applied to those data fields are common to all project deliverables. Now while this works on a project-wide level, we still have certain data fields that only apply to the individual drawings. We can create custom drawing properties in the same way we created the custom project properties, but these data fields will only be used to populate drawing title blocks on an individual basis. Let's create a few custom drawing fields now. So let's right-click and look at the project properties. Now you'll see under General Settings, there is a location here for drawing properties. So what we're going to do is we're going to create the properties in the same way we made the project properties. First off, let's add a category, and I'm going to call this one Drawing Information. So over in the next section here, properties of the category, let's add a row, and we'll call that Drawn By. We'll add a row, we'll…

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