TEMPLATE SETUP

[BRENT]

At the office we are trying to streamline our drawing procedures.
Our drawings lately have been very inconsistent when it comes to layers and lineweights.
It would be great to have a template, or base file that every project starts from. Consistency would greatly improve if we did this.

Right now we have a Base file that all the drawing gets done in for each project. When drawing is finished, we create the seperate sheet files (a-1 a-2, etc.) that xref the Title Block and the Base drawing. We usually just deleted the lines from one base file and started drawing again to start each new project, and save it as something new. Yuck. I absolutely want to start using a template file so that each project gets a FRESH start.

My question concerns the setup of this template file and the base title block for the office.

Right now it seems easiest for me to just make the template file empty with all of the office layers setup within it.

Each new project we'd open the template and start drawing with the established layer set. Everything else would be the same (our xref'd sheets and title blocks)

I'd like the template file to contain the title block in paper space so we could toggle back and forth and see the sheet layout as we are drawing in the base file.

If the template loads with the titleblock each time, how can it be xref'd for each new project and each new sheet? Only the text in the titleblock needs to be xref'd? I'm a bit lost on how to set this up.

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks.

[Flores]

I don't xref title-blocks. Instead I insert it as a block with attributes. This way I just double-click the text and modify the attributes. Others here have the border and title-block saved in there template. That way when a new drawing is started, you already have the border and title block. Another way would be to use rtext to update the title block with an external .txt.

Flores

[Mr T]

Investigate OPTIONS command

Investigate STANDARDS within the TOOLS pull down menu.

Nick

[myk26]

I would have to agree w/ flores once again. I like saving the border as a templete w/ the title block as an attribute. That way when you get your template just the way you want, (w/ all the line weights and layers included) just do a save as, title it a different scale, and adjust the ddim. The hardest part is adjust the ddim correctly, but once you figure it out, it takes no time at all to produce a nice set of customized temp.'s. Just have everyone pull from the same temp file and your office should be a lil closer to the fine tuned machine your lookin for.

Hopin' to add some addition help......