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Add a custom field to your title block

Add a custom field to your title block

- [Irene] Once you've created your custom drawing and project properties, we can add them to our title blocks. There are two ways that we can achieve this, with the first being just to simply add a field to designated space within the drawing border, or you can embed the data field in your title block template. Let's start by just placing some fields in your drawing border. So I'm going to go ahead and right-click on 0505 P&ID, and we'll add some properties. I'm going to copy this up here. I'm just going to make a few changes. We can remove the spaces. I'll add an and in here. I'm going to fill in the drawing areas, so we'll call this 300, and we'll call this Video Number 3. And we'll say this is drawn by Irene Radcliffe. And the chapter will be 05, and the video is 03. Now let's go up to our Home tab and look at Project Manager. So we have some drawing properties filled in. One thing that's missing up here is we don't have a project number shown on our drawing. So I want to take a…

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