Introducing AutoCAD 2008

The Drawing Properties dialog box lets you store nondrawing data with your drawing file. This can be textual information such as the project name, people involved in creating the drawing, or comments regarding the drawing. You can even add a keyword in the event that you'll need to search for this file using the AutoCAD DesignCenter or the Windows Search tool.

To get to the Drawing Properties dialog box, choose File è Drawing Properties. The General tab contains information such as the file size and when the drawing was created (see Figure 11.8).

Figure 11.8: The General tab of the Drawing Properties dialog box

The Summary tab contains the Title, Subject, Author, Keywords, and Comments text boxes in which you can enter data (see Figure 11.9).

Figure 11.9: The Summary tab of the Drawing Properties dialog box

The Statistics tab offers editing dates and times. The Custom tab (see Figure 11.10) lets you enter further textual data to be stored with the drawing.

Figure 11.10: The Custom tab of the Drawing Properties dialog box