Do you use CAD standard? If you haven’t, do you think it can be useful? Be sure and have the Options / File path set correctly on your machine.ģ. With more than one template using the startup dialog box is a smart idea. I need to create an ANSI D template for a municipality we are working with. We are a one disciple firm so only have one template at the moment. Do you use startup dialog to choose templates? Old drawings can bring corruption to a drawing set that isn't worth the perceived time saved.Ģ. Breaking users of this habit was hard but worth the effort. The problem is that some blocks, layers, and text/dim styles are wrong for current company standards. Some drafters were taking an old 'similar' drawing and erasing everything to have a clean file. Our templates are on the server in a shared CADD folder. Are your templates also used by your colleagues? Do you save them in local folders, or shared folders? *If any one interested to be a guest writer in this series, you can contact me at edwin. I have several e-book copies that I will give to participant, based on most interesting discussion. Do you use CAD standard? If you haven’t, do you think it can be useful?.Do you use startup dialog to choose templates?.Are your templates also used by your colleagues? Do you save them in local folders, or shared folders?.You can use CAD standard to check and give warning if there’re text that don’t follow standard. Now let’s see if you choose to have different text styles for each size (I usually have 3 text styles). You can minimize non-standard text by giving the users which sizes they may use in a printed guide or briefing. The benefit is the style list is simple, easy to find. CAD standard won’t recognize if the users use custom sizes. The downside of using this is users can set text size to any size they want. They choose minimum number of styles by using 0 text size. Paul Munford and PepaR have good argument to keep their template simple. We want us to keep following those settings we made. Now that you have set a good template, we can use it as a standard. If you do keep your templates in custom location, either locally or shared location over network, you need to change default template location. I prefer this method, because it works as reminder and force user to choose appropriate template. Since AutoCAD 2012, I prefer to set it to 2. I prefer to set STARTUP system variable to 1.
If you use different templates in many drawings, you will want to choose which one before AutoCAD start to open. The problem is AutoCAD loads default template every time it’s started. In files tab, under template settings category, change default template file name for QNEW to your default template. To change it, you can go to AutoCAD option. Now that we have our own templates, we want AutoCAD to open our default template, instead of the default acad.dwt. You already did it when starting a new template. We can choose template when we create a new file.
You may want to place your template in a shared location, so all AutoCAD users in your office can use the same file. From application menu, choose save as> AutoCAD drawing template.īut the truth is, you can simply change the file extension from. To save the drawing to a template, open the drawing. Saving templateĪutoCAD template basically is just an AutoCAD drawing. Let’s continue the topic further: saving and using the template.
You can start from the first task and review what you have prepared. If you feel that you still need to add more things in your template beyond our discussion please share them here.Īt this point, we consider our template is finish. I prefer to have different libraries for that, and insert them later when I need them.Īs I always said, it might be not the best practice for you, because specific industry may need different framework. The most common thing we do is putting title block in our layout. Sometimes we also put drawings in our template. I understand that sometimes we’re not only setting up layers, styles, and all of those settings. Let’s continue our discussion to work with AutoCAD better.
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