Designer lets you assign names and other properties to objects and groups of objects in your drawing. This lets you uniquely identify and categorize objects. You can then select objects by their property and create lists of objects, such as a shopping list of parts needed for a project.
You can also add interactivity to objects, such as a link to a Web page, that will be used in Flash, PDF, or other files you export from Designer.
Use the Object Properties dialog box (keyboard shortcut: F12) to set properties.
| If you assign properties to a group, its properties are lost if you ungroup the objects. |
Fields are like categories of information about the objects in your drawings or contain specific information for an action. "Name" is a predefined property. When you assign a name to an object, you create a value for the property "Name."
You can use predefined fields or define your own fields and assign values to them. For example, you could use fields and values for a part in an engineering drawing as follows.
When you add a field to an object, it appears in the Object Properties dialog box or Property toolbar for all objects in the document. You can then add values to it for the other objects as applicable.
| If you typically use many of the same properties you have used before, you need not enter them again when you create a new document. Just open a document that includes the desired properties. You can then access the same properties from any other open document. |