You can keep track of
your drawings more easily if you add keywords or other information
to them.
Use Windows Explorer
Drawing
properties can help you identify a drawing. Some drawing properties
are stored by the operating system; for example, drawing type, location, and
size. These values are read-only in the drawing file and can only
be changed through Windows Explorer.
Use the Find Tool
The Find tool in a standard file selection dialog
box can use this information. For example, you can search for all
files created on a certain date, or for files you modified yesterday.
Use DesignCenter
You
can create additional properties in drawing files. You can store
author, title, and subject, and you can assign keywords, hyperlink
addresses or directory paths, and custom properties to your drawings.
The Advanced tab in the Search tool in DesignCenter can use these
properties to locate drawing files. For more information about DesignCenter,
see Access Content with DesignCenter.
Use Sheet
Set Manager Properties
With
the Sheet Set Manager, you can assign a sheet title, number, and
a description to every sheet in a sheet set. For more information
about sheet sets, see Include Information with Sheets and Sheet Sets.
Display
Properties in Fields
You
can assign any of the drawing properties to a field in a text object.
For more information about fields, see Use Fields in Text.
To display drawing properties
for the active drawing
- Click the Application button, and click
Drawing
Drawing
Properties. 
- In the Drawing Properties dialog box,
click tabs to view the different types of information.
To define drawing properties
- Click the Application button, and click
Drawing Drawing
Properties.
- In the Drawing Properties dialog box,
enter property information on the following tabs:
- Summary tab. Enter
the drawing title, subject, author, keywords, comments, and a default
address for hyperlinked data in your drawing. For example, you can
add the keyword Autodesk to certain drawing files
and then use DesignCenter to search for all drawing files with that
keyword. For a hyperlink base, you can specify an Internet address
or a path to a folder on a network drive.
- Custom tab. Click
Add. In the Add Custom Property dialog box, enter a name and a value
for the custom property. Click OK. The new custom property and its
value are displayed on the Custom tab. This information can be used
for advanced searches in DesignCenter.
- Click OK.
CommandsDWGPROPS
Sets and displays the
file properties of the current drawing.
System VariablesCDATE
Stores the current date
and time in decimal format.
DATE
Stores the current date
and time in Modified Julian Date format.
TDCREATE
Stores the local time
and date the drawing was created.
TDINDWG
Stores the total editing
time, which is the total elapsed time between saves of the current
drawing.
TDUCREATE
Stores the universal
time and date that the drawing was created.
TDUPDATE
Stores the local time
and date of the last update/save.
TDUUPDATE
Stores the universal
time and date of the last update or save.
