Hi Brian, notes are for whatever information you might want to keep track of for a particular .3dm file.

You could put in for example the date the project started, customer name and e-mail address of the client who commissioned some work that this is a part of, paste in e-mail discussion from the client, paste in a web site address where you found some relevant information, etc...

You could do all of this kind of stuff in a text file saved alongside of your .3dm file, but the advantage of notes is that they are packaged inside of the .3dm file and so can be a little easier to manage.

But you can think of the notes as basically a text file packaged inside the .3dm file.

Also if the notes window is open when you save the .3dm file, it will be automatically displayed in the same position when the .3dm file is reopened so you can put information in there that will be shown to someone when they open the file if there is information that you want them to know about.


The key/value document user text is a place for scripts to save data inside the .3dm file instead of them needing to use a separate text file for data storage as well. The Key values are not private but the intent is they should be some identifier unique to the script (such as the script's name for example) so that it will not be likely to be accessed and overwritten by some other script.

- Michael