- [Instructor] Custom properties are metadata
that stay with the part you created.
And when you're creating a drawing of one of those parts,
a lot of that metadata will be brought in to the drawing
and show up down here like in the title block
or the who it's drawn by and the date and so on.
So to add Custom properties, if you click on the part here,
I'm going to go back here to the part
and let's bring it into view here, here's my part.
And right up here at the top of the screen
you can see we have File Properties
and inside there we've got Summary, Custom Properties,
as well as Configuration Specific properties.
So under Custom properties,
I'm going to go ahead and just look in there.
I can click on this dropdown here
and I can go ahead and grab any one of these values here
so the Description,
I can type in something over here like BLOCK
and it shows up over there
as far as the part number,
I can give it something like 1234.
The Revision, something like that
let's go ahead and just start adding these things in here
Revision A
and if I come down here to like Material
instead of just a text,
I could actually choose like a date, or a number,
or yes or no question,
or in this box over here,
I can choose to link to a property
and notice these are all the properties
that are associated with that part
and I can choose material here
and notice it does grab that material
right over here from the material
and once you have everything looking pretty good click okay
and now all that metadata is stored with this part.
If you bring that part into an assembly
and bring in a build materials
all that same information will show up
on that bill materials
and it'll also show up on the drawing.
So if I head up over here,
click on that sheet
now back over here
notice BLOCK shows up right over here.
I've got the drawing number
and I've got the material showing up right over here.
I've got the revision here
and some drawings actually link the revision
to the part itself
or you also have custom properties
that are actually in the drawing itself here too.
So in this case
this drawing does use the revision from the actual sheet
so if I change that to B click okay
and it'll show up over here.
The thing you don't want to do
is actually change the block itself
on the Edit Sheet format.
You want to make sure you're linking back
to either the part itself or back to this drawing
to bring in this metadata about your design.
All right. Now if you have a new part
or you want to modify or copy those Custom properties
it's pretty straightforward and easy to do.
I'm going to go ahead and start a brand new part
I'm going to use this LinkedIn part, click okay
and if I open up this part here
I actually have some pre-formatted Custom properties.
So inside there you can see I've got Description,
Part Number, all this stuff
and I'm using and linking to things like the short date
or the long date
and also adding some notes and things here
and I have a special way
I want to call out the file Part Number.
So I can save this information.
So if I click on the first one here
go down and hold down Shift
and choose is the last row there.
I can hit Control+C for copy.
So I've copied that information out
and then I can go back over to my original part
which is this one right over here,
come up to those Custom properties
and hold on that's the drawing.
Let's go back over to the part itself.
Here's the part and come to Custom properties
and here they are.
Now we've already added a few of these in
so I'm going to go ahead and just delete those rows
so we don't have duplicates
and then click on that first row and hit Control+V
and that will copy in all those values
that we copied from the other part.
Click on okay
and now that's saved.
Actually you want to go back there one more time
and make sure we're adding in the Description BLOCK.
Okay, there it is.
BLOCK, click okay
and now if I head back over here to the sheet
it shows up as well as some of the other information
shows up in the drawing.
So it says SEE NOTES down here
we pulling that in from there.
Now depending on how you set up your sheet itself
if you right click and say Edit Sheet Format
you might have different locations here
like where it says BLOCK
where you can add in and modify where those notes come.
So make sure the sheet you're using does link back to
those values that are on your Custom properties
for your individual part.
When you modify that
you of course you can come back over here
and take a look at all the changes
that might be coming in from that other part.
Once you're done reviewing the drawing
you should be all set
and ready to use those Custom properties
that you've saved with your part
in your drawings as well as your bill of materials.