You might want to make sure your Hatch Patterns are included, or maybe you want your blocks to be defined within the template. Of course, this list differs depending on each company’s specific requirements. Various other drafting settings (DRAFTINGOPTIONS).Plotting and publishing settings (PRINTCONFIGURATION).Sheets with viewports and scales (SHEET).Line Styles (LINESTYLE) and their scale (LINESCALE).Linear and angular unit formats and precision (UNITSYSTEM).

Once you get everything built into your new template, you’ll need to do a Save As, and change the “Save as type” to Drawing template (second from the bottom in the list).īelow is a list of the most commonly set standards found in Template files: Some people aren’t even aware of this feature of New Drawing dialog so we’ll show it to you here. If you’re starting your template from scratch, you probably want to use a new file that isn’t based on one of the built-in templates. As starting points for your drawings, templates contain all your standard, so your designers won’t need to set them every time. Quite simply, a template file is a drawing file with an extension of DWT (instead of DWG). The best starting place for this goal is usually a set of well-built CAD template files. Everything just works the way it’s supposed to, and they don’t have to worry about anything but doing their job. It’s been said that the best CAD Standard is the one that your users don’t know they’re using. You also want them to focus on their design instead of constantly defining (or re-defining) their layers and styles etc. From a CAD management standpoint, you want your drafters and designers to always use the correct layers, styles, and various settings that you’ve defined to make your projects successful. We all want our projects to run like well-oiled machines.

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