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Set drawing properties

Set drawing properties

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Set drawing properties

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- [Instructor] In the previous video we looked at project properties. We're now going to look at drawing properties. So we're staying in our PROJECT006, I've go the Power.dwg file open. I'm going to go over to the Project Manager and right-click over Power.dwg. If I hover over Properties here, you'll see there's my Drawing Properties, but also I can apply Project Defaults, which means I can override any individual drawing properties that might be in the Drawing Properties itself. So let's select Drawing Properties and that will bring up a dialogue box that is remarkably similar to Project Properties. But you've got your drawing settings here, for example. So you've got Description 1, Description 2, Description 3. You can also set the drawing For Reference Only if you wish, which means it then doesn't relate back to the database behind the project. You can also set things like your Project Code, Installation Code, Location code. You can also Sheet values, Drawing, Section, Sub-Section,…

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