With a CUSTOMTOOLS Profile that does not have any Properties already defined on the Model or Drawing scope, you can open the Easy Implementation Property Wizard from the CUSTOMTOOLS Model Properties and Drawing Properties options by clicking the Launch Wizard button.
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NOTE: If your CUSTOMTOOLS Profile has one or more Properties defined in the Model or Drawing Properties, the Easy Implementation Property Wizard cannot be used to add more Properties to the profile. In that case, you can add properties using the traditional CUSTOMTOOLS Property Wizard instead.
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You can choose the source of an existing property data to create the CUSTOMTOOLS Properties according to, from the following options:
| SOLIDWORKS Property Tab Builder |
Create the CUSTOMTOOLS Properties based on the SOLIDWORKS Properties Template (*.drwprp) files. This way, the Drawing scope Properties are automatically created by the information found from the SOLIDWORKS Properties Template files selected on the Select Source step.
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| SOLIDWORKS PDM |
Use the PDM File Cards from your local SOLIDWORKS PDM Vaults to create the CUSTOMTOOLS Drawing Properties by. Using this method, the PDM File Cards from the vaults selected on the Select Source step, are being read and the Drawing Properties are created based on the information retrieved.
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| SOLIDWORKS Documents |
Create the CUSTOMTOOLS Properties based on your SOLIDWORKS Drawing documents. With this option, the file properties of the SOLIDWORKS files (*.slddrw) selected on the Select Source step, are being read and the Drawing Properties are created based on the information retrieved.
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Adding Properties to the CUSTOMTOOLS Profile according to the existing information eases your job to implement a CUSTOMTOOLS Profile suitable to your SOLIDWORKS design environment.
While generating Properties from the selected data source, CUSTOMTOOLS Easy Wizard determines the output Properties' input types automatically.
For example, let's say we have some combobox type of Properties in the selected source of properties that have just two possible values, 1 and 0.
In that case, CUSTOMTOOLS Easy Wizard makes these properties as check box type of Properties instead of comboboxes that the properties used to be in the properties' source. In CUSTOMTOOLS, a check box type of property may have different value while being selected/cleared.
Because the check box is usually easier to use than a combobox in a case when there are only two options to choose from, CUSTOMTOOLS improves the Properties usability by converting comboboxes to check boxes in these particular cases.