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Create a custom project property

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Create a custom project property

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- [Instructor] Welcome to chapter five, Custom Properties. So, let's navigate to our exercise files, so we're going to open to our Project Manager, Open, Desktop, Exercise Files, Chapter 05, project.xml. When we're working in a project environment, there's certain identifying information that we will likely want to see on every drawing and deliverable in the project, such as the plant number, the project number. And by storing that information in data fields, we have the ability to push the data into our drawing title blocks. This also allows us to change the data in a single location, and have it automatically update the information in every project drawing, saving many hours of manual title block updates. So, let's look at Project Manager and let's see our Project Details. So, from Project Manger, Project Setup. So, let's look at our Project Details. Now, we have certain project information such as the description and the project number. Now, we've looked at those before, but if we…

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