Drawing Properties
The Properties are used to store the reference data of the SOLIDWORKS documents into the ATR CustomTools database. The Drawing Properties are the Properties scoped to the SOLIDWORKS drawing documents.
When you are building up a new ATR CustomTools Profile from scratch, the Drawing Properties node in the Profile Options looks different and has different options than a profile created based on the Demo Profile template or a profile imported from a ATR CustomTools Profile file (*.ctprof). In that case, please refer to the Easy Implementation section on this page.
The Drawing Properties options are located in the ATR CustomTools Profile Options.
Select the desired ATR CustomTools product from the table below to display further and product-specific instructions to find the Drawing Properties options.
| CT product | Instructions |
|---|---|
| SOLIDWORKS Add-in |
Click Tools, ATR CustomTools, Options. The ATR CustomTools Options dialog box appear with the Profile Options tab active. Select the Drawing Properties node to see the options. |
| ATR CustomTools Viewer |
Click the Options command located in the ribbon. The ATR CustomTools Options dialog box appear with the Profile Options tab active. Select the Drawing Properties node to see the options. |
| ATR CustomTools Administration |
Login to your ATR CustomTools database, select the ATR CustomTools profile node from the Database View and then click the Profile Options command located in the Profile Settings group in the ribbon. The ATR CustomTools Options dialog box appear with the Profile Options tab active. Select the Drawing Properties to see the options. |
| Add Group | Create a new group for custom properties. Grouping custom properties eases the management of existing properties. |
| Add | Starts the Property Wizard for creating a new custom property. The Property Wizard starts from the Basic Information page. |
| Edit | Starts the Property Wizard for editing the selected custom property. The Property Wizard starts from the Basic Information page. |
| Delete | Deletes the selected property. When you have selected a Property group and then click Delete, the whole group and all the custom properties inside it are deleted. |
All Property Groups must have at least one Property. If any Property Group is empty while exiting the ATR CustomTools Options, you are prompted to create at least one Property under the empty group. Alternatively, you can delete the empty Property Group.
You can select the properties information shown in the properties list. Most of the following items are hidden by default. Right-click any of the properties list headers and select the desired item from the context menu to show it in the list. Right-click any of the properties list headers and clear selection of the desired item from the context menu to hide it from the list.
| Attribute Name | The attribute name used to direct the reference data into the correct place in the database. |
| Label | The caption used in the Properties pane to recognize the different properties. |
| Type | Type of the custom property. The type determines what kind of input is used to set the value for the property. |
| Scope | Shows the document type which the Property is scoped for. The Properties with scope Model are assignable for parts and assemblies. |
| Read-only | Shows whether the property is set as read-only. Read-only properties are usually linked to an external data source so their value cannot be modified by the user. |
| Hidden | Shows whether the property is visible in the Properties pane. |
| Visibility Property | Name of the property selected to control visibility of the selected property. |
| Visibility Value | Value of the property selected as the Visibility Property to make the selected property visible in the Properties pane. While the value of the property selected as the Visibility Property is anything else than the one defined as the Visibility Value, the property stays hidden in the Properties pane. |
| Required | Shows whether the selected property is mandatory. Mandatory properties must have a value assigned if they are visible in the Properties pane in order to save changes. |
| Tooltip | Tooltip text of the property. The tooltip appears when you hover the mouse pointer over the property field in the Properties pane. |
| Before Function | Shows the Before Function selected for the property. |
| After Function | Shows the After Function selected for the property. |
| Button Function | Shows the Button Function selected for the property. |
| Data Function | Shows the Data Function selected for the property. |
| Dictionary | Name of the dictionary used for selecting value for the selected property. Using a dictionary allows you to make multilingual properties for translating SOLIDWORKS drawings into other languages defined in the ATR CustomTools Translation Options. |
| Target Language | Shows the language in which the property's value is translated. |
| Source Property | The source property which the selected property's value is generated based on. |
| Combination | Name of the Drawing Combination to generate the value of the selected property based on. |
| Database Search Group | Name of the Database Search Group the selected property is linked to. |
| Database Column | A column in the Database Search Group to retrieve value to the selected property from. |
| Enable in Search | Shows whether the property is enabled in the ATR CustomTools Search feature. Properties enabled in Search appear in the ATR CustomTools Search pane for using them as search conditions while looking for specific files from the ATR CustomTools database. |
| Exclude from Item Search | Shows whether the property could be used as a search condition while linking value to the property from an external data source defined as the Database Search Group. |
| Format | A format string of the property. By the format string, you can determine how, for example, the Date value appears in the associated property in the Properties pane. If the property Type is Checkbox, the Format value determines the value written to the property. |
| Format for Unchecked | If the property's Type is Checkbox, the Format for Unchecked determines the value written to the property while the checkbox associated to the property is not selected in the Properties pane. |
| Max Length | Shows the maximum length allowed to write to the property. |
| Copy as Model Prop | Shows whether the property value from another than the Model scope is copied to the Model scope. |
| Copy as Drawing Prop | Shows whether the property value from another than the Drawing scope is copied to the Drawing scope. |
| Clear on Save As | Shows whether the property value is cleared on the Save and Save As operations. |
| Uppercase | Shows whether the value of the property is written using uppercase letters. |
| Track History | Shows whether value history tracking is enabled for the property. |
| Display in Print/Convert | Shows whether the property and its value appear in the document list in the Batch Operation dialog box. |
| Display in Design Tree | Shows whether the property and its value appear in the document's Design Tree view in the ATR CustomTools Viewer. |
| Display in Copy | Shows whether the property and its value appear in the document list in the Copy feature. |
| Enable Changing in Print | Shows whether the property's value could be overwritten in ATR CustomTools Batch Operations like batch printing or batch file conversion. |
| Allow Scripting |
Shows whether the property could be managed by the ATR CustomTools script add-ins. The script add-ins
could be used to provide extended functionality for the Properties feature.
NOTE:
The script add-ins have to be ordered separately and the price of the script add-in you need depends
on the requirements of your project. For more information about the script add-ins, please contact
ATR CustomTools Sales
by email.
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| Lookup List | Name of the ATR CustomTools Lookup List used for selecting value for the property from. |
The following options are available in the Drawing Properties options when the ATR CustomTools Profile does not have any Properties already defined for the SOLIDWORKS Drawing scope.
| Launch Wizard | Click the Launch Wizard button to open the Easy Property Wizard. Using the Easy Property Wizard you can set up Properties into your new ATR CustomTools Profile by an existing source of definitions. |
| Create Manually | Click the Create Manually button instead, to create the desired properties manually by the traditional way, by which the Model Properties have been created in previous ATR CustomTools versions, and still in profiles that already have at least one Drawing Property defined. |