- [Narrator] One of the quickest ways
to populate information on our SOLIDWORKS Drawings,
is by linking custom properties.
Let's walk through an example of linking the custom material
of this SOLIDWORKS part file
to a no area on this title block.
So the first thing I got to do is make sure
that I have the custom property available to choose from.
So I'm going to open this part up
and make sure that I do have a material selected,
I'm then going to go up to the top
and click on the file properties button.
And here from the drop down,
I'm going to select material
and for the value text expression
I'm going to from the dropdown again, select the material.
This creates the material custom property
that is filled with the SOLIDWORKS material from this item
and gives you out that result, which is plain carbon steel.
Go ahead and click okay,
kick control Q to rebuild
and save to save the file.
I'm now going to switch over to
my model item drawing.
I'm going to rebuild again
and save this drawing as well.
I'm know going to right click anywhere in the white
and now don't right click on the view.
Cause if you right click on the view
you're going to get a different option,
but right click anywhere in the white space
and now hit Edit Sheet Format.
This is where we go to edit our title block
and various features in this area.
So I'm going to zoom in to where material is.
I'm going to insert a new note and drop it right here.
I'm going to go over to
link to property and the property manager
here for our annotation.
Now, when I do that
I'm going to do this to link to the model item.
Model, so I go to model found here
drawing view specified in the sheet properties
and that's the view that we have.
And if I click down now on our property name
the first one that shows up is material.
We can see that, that now generates from the other side
I'm going to click, okay,
I'm going to double-click
inside of the note to select everything
and now shrink it down to an appropriate size.
And after that, I'm going to click again.
You can see that it's actually
giving me another copy of the note,
like is natural when you're creating notes.
I'm going to hit escape
and now I'm going to drag this over
so that it fits a little bit more nicely in the box.
You'll notice that all the text is highlighted in blue,
that means that this is a linked property.
This information comes from somewhere else
the custom material properties in the model.
Okay. I'm going to go ahead now
and exit the Edit Sheet Format area
by clicking on this button,
zoom out and my information is ready to go.
Now, if I go back over to this and edit this material
I'm going to change it to cast alloy steel instead
control Q to rebuild and save.
Now, I'm going to switch over to my sheet.
You can see that that property has updated
and will continue to in this drawing.
You can take it a step further
by saving this out as a drawing template
and creating your own drawing templates
with all of the custom linked materials
and all the custom properties inside of it.