Drawing Properties
File › Drawing Properties… shows what the drawing shown is: its file and contents, its classification to fill in, and its notes, to add to and change.
About the drawing
The top of the dialog says, without changing anything:
| File | The file the drawing is saved in, or that it isn't saved yet. |
| Last saved | When its file was last written. |
| Units | Millimetres or inches: the units the drawing was started in (see Preferences). They stay with the drawing. |
| Pages | How many pages it has. |
| Elements | How many lines, arcs, texts, dimensions … it has, on all its pages. |
| Points | How many points it has. |
| Variables | How many of its variables are its own (not the # settings every drawing has). |
| Board, Flutes / grain | What its board is (solid or corrugated, its flute, its thickness) and which way its flutes or grain run on the blank, if its material says (see Materials). |
| Library parts, Functions | How many parts its library keeps and how many functions it defines, if it has any. |
The 3D layout
A drawing with a 3D page has Save the 3D layout in the drawing under these. Ticked, how its 3D page is laid out for live editing (the Variables and Scene panels, the timeline, Fold by Hand and the splitter) is written into its file, so it travels with it; cleared (as it is to start with), the app remembers it on this computer only, and the file is as it would be without it.
What it is
The drawing's classification says what kind of drawing it is, for AI and for finding it again: Ask Claude fills it in for the drawings it makes, and extensions can read it - a save extension can record it in a database each time the drawing is saved.
| Category | The kind of thing: folding carton, corrugated box, display, insert … |
| Style | The standard it follows, by its code: FEFCO 0201, ECMA A20.20 … |
| Product | What it is for: a shipping case, a cosmetics box … |
| Tags | Words to search by, separated by commas. |
| Description | A sentence or two: what it is, what it holds, its options. |
| Industry | The industry it is drawn for (packaging, sheet metal, sewing …), chosen from the list: the toolbar and Edit › Tool offer that industry's tools (see Industries and Tool Sets). General says none; choosing a category drawn in an industry (a folding carton, a gasket) fills it in. |
Category and Style are lists to pick from, or to type in: the reference list of the
usual categories and the standard styles' codes (FEFCO 0201 …). What you type is matched to the list loosely and kept
in its form (fefco 201 becomes FEFCO 0201); anything else is kept as typed. Choosing a style fills in its category,
or offers to change the category if it has another.
Leave a field empty for none. It is saved with the drawing as CLASSIFY commands, which can also add fields of your own; those are kept as they are.
Notes
Notes are names and values kept with the drawing: a customer, an order number, a due date. They are saved in the drawing (as NOTE commands) and reports can show them. A die-making file's order details (a CF2 file's, a DDES3 file's table) are kept as notes too, so they can be written back when it is exported.
- Add Note adds a row: type its name and its value (a value can have more than one line).
- Change a name to rename the note, or its value to change it.
- Remove takes the note away; so does emptying its value.
Nothing changes until you click OK. Then the classification, the notes and the 3D layout setting are changed in one step: Edit › Undo puts them back as they were. Two notes can't have the same name, and a note with a value needs a name: the dialog says so, and stays open to put it right.