You can export both automatic and user-specified property set data to a PDF file. You can also export different types of property set data to a DWF or DWFx file.
Each object in AutoCAD Architecture 2022 toolset has a set of automatic properties attached to it. For example, every wall has width, length, and height properties. Automatic properties are a subgroup of property set data that can be attached to an object (or object style) with a property set definition.
If you automatically export all automatic properties of an object to a PDF, DWF, or DWFx file, you do not have to set up property set definitions for individual objects; but you cannot select which properties to export and which to ignore.
User-defined property set data is data from a property set definition that you have created and attached to an object or object style. Property set data can include automatic object properties, like height and width of a wall, but also manually defined data such as fire ratings or manufacturing information, project information, and more.
When publishing user-defined property set data, you specify which property set definitions to include and which to exclude. For example, some property sets in your drawing might contain information you want to keep confidential. In other cases, the recipient of a published file might need only specific property set information about one aspect of the drawing, and does not want to search for that information among a large amount of unrelated information.
When publishing user-defined property set data, you must attach property set definitions to the objects in your drawing, and select a PPL (Published Properties List) file that contains these property sets. For example, you attach the property set definition DoorObjects to a number of doors in your drawing. Then, you add the DoorObjects property set definition to your PPL file. When you publish the drawing to PDF, DWF, or DWFx file, the property set data from these doors is published. In the same PPL file, you add the WindowObjects property set definition. However, you do not attach the WindowObjects property set definition to any windows in your drawing. When you publish the drawing to PDF, DWF, or DWFx file, no property set data from the WindowObjects property set definition is published.