Part III: Becoming an Expert

Part III: Becoming an Expert

Chapter List


	Chapter 10: Storing and Linking Data with Graphics


	Chapter 11: Working with Pre-existing Drawings and Raster Images


	Chapter 12: Advanced Editing Methods


	Chapter 13: Drawing Curves and Solid Fills


	Chapter 14: Getting and Exchanging Data from Drawings

Chapter 10: Storing and Linking Data with Graphics

Overview

Attributes are unique to computer-aided design and drafting; nothing quite like them exists in traditional drafting. Because of this, they are often poorly understood. Attributes enable you to store information as text that you can later extract to use in database managers, spreadsheet programs, and word processors. By using attributes, you can keep track of virtually any object in a drawing, or maintain textural information within the drawing that can be queried.

Keeping track of objects is just one way of using attributes. You can also use them in place of text objects in situations where you must enter the same text, with minor modifications, in many places in your drawing. For example, if you are drawing a schedule that contains several columns of information, you can use attributes to help simplify your data entry.

Attributes can also be used where you anticipate global editing of text. For example, suppose a note that refers to a part number occurs in several places. If you think you will want to change that part number in every note, you can make the part a block with an...

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