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Adding custom properties

Adding custom properties - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Adding custom properties

- Custom properties allow us to assign things like a part number, or a revision, material, and so on to an individual part, and then I can bring that information into my drawing of the part, I can bring that information into an assembly that part is used in. It has a lot of power and I can assign a lot of information to an individual part. To get to custom properties, let's click on the part itself and click on open. I have 17.3 opened up here, and then click on this little icon up here at the top called file properties, and as soon as you open that up you can see that there's no properties yet, because we haven't added any, but you also have the option to click on summary and add an author or keyword, and also configuration specific properties, those just go back to the original custom properties, and just click on the box here, and click on the drop-down and select one of these. You can see we have quite a few options here, and you can even customize this list, if needed. Click on…

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