On the
Custom
and the
Configuration
Properties
tabs in the Properties dialog box, you can:
- Specify custom properties for the active
part, assembly, or drawing document.
- Apply custom properties to specific
configurations in the active part or assembly document.
- Create blank custom properties - useful when
you want to create a template that contains custom properties but you do not want to
give those properties-specific starting values.
- Add associative dimensions. The dimensions can come from sketches,
part features, assembly features, or assembly mates. Since part dimensions are
associative, values in the Bill of Materials (BOM) update when the dimensions
change.
- Add system-defined mass properties as custom
properties, using either the Custom or
Configuration Properties tabs.
- Edit the list of custom properties.
In addition to the BOM, you can use the properties in the following ways:
- As advanced selection criteria for managing assembly configurations
- In drawing sheet formats and to link notes to document properties
- To specify a property named Description, to appear in the Open and Save As
dialog boxes
If you plan to use the property
as a custom column in a Bill of Materials:
- For Excel-based BOMs, do not include any spaces in the Property
Name.
- For table-based BOMs, spaces in the Property Name are
acceptable.