How To Change Template In Autocad For Only One Page

Let's continue our discussion to piece of work with AutoCAD better.

I sympathize that sometimes we're not only setting upwardly layers, styles, and all of those settings. Sometimes we also put drawings in our template. The near common matter nosotros practice is putting title block in our layout. I prefer to take unlike libraries for that, and insert them later when I need them.

As I ever said, information technology might be not the best practice for you lot, because specific industry may need dissimilar framework.

If you feel that you nevertheless need to add more than things in your template beyond our discussion please share them here.

At this indicate, nosotros consider our template is terminate. You can commencement from the offset chore and review what yous have prepared.

Permit's continue the topic further: saving and using the template.

Saving template

AutoCAD template basically is only an AutoCAD drawing. To save the drawing to a template, open the drawing. From application menu, choose salvage as> AutoCAD drawing template.

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But the truth is, you can simply alter the file extension from .dwg to .dwt from file explorer.

You may want to identify your template in a shared location, and so all AutoCAD users in your office tin can use the same file. Or a folder in your local file.

Using template

So how we tin employ the template?

We tin cull template when we create a new file. You already did it when starting a new template.

Setting upwardly default template

Now that we have our own templates, we want AutoCAD to open our default template, instead of the default acad.dwt.

To change information technology, you can get to AutoCAD choice. In files tab, under template settings category, change default template file proper noun for QNEW to your default template.

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Showing startup carte

The trouble is AutoCAD loads default template every time it's started. If you lot use dissimilar templates in many drawings, you volition want to choose which one before AutoCAD outset to open.

I prefer to fix STARTUP arrangement variable to 1. Since AutoCAD 2012, I prefer to fix information technology to ii. I prefer this method, because information technology works as reminder and strength user to choose appropriate template.

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Default template location

If you lot exercise keep your templates in custom location, either locally or shared location over network, yous need to modify default template location.

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Working with CAD standard

Now that you lot have fix a good template, nosotros can use it as a standard. We want us to keep following those settings we made.

You tin can salve as the template as .dws file. Read about drawing standard here.

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Paul Munford and PepaR have good statement to go on their template elementary. They choose minimum number of styles by using 0 text size. The downside of using this is users can set text size to any size they desire. CAD standard won't recognize if the users use custom sizes. The benefit is the style list is simple, easy to find. You tin can minimize not-standard text by giving the users which sizes they may use in a printed guide or briefing.

At present let'due south see if y'all cull to accept dissimilar text styles for each size (I usually take 3 text styles). You can use CAD standard to check and give warning if there're text that don't follow standard.

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Are your templates as well used by your colleagues? Do you save them in local folders, or shared folders?
Exercise you lot apply startup dialog to choose templates?
Do you use CAD standard? If you haven't, do you lot think it can be useful?

We're done with templates. Next week, we will cover a new topic. I have several east-volume copies that I will give to participant, based on most interesting give-and-take. Stay tuned!

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I work as a Solution Consultant in Datech Solutions, Tech Information Republic of indonesia. I've been using AutoCAD since R14 and Revit since Revit Edifice 9. I occasionally write for AUGIWorld magazine and also agile in Autodesk discussion forum.
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