Drawing Templates.

What do you have set up in your drawing templates?

Pretty much everything that I wish to be consistent across every drawing

Im just setting one up now before I head off to Media City site for 6 months. ive got set up on mine:

Layers

Plotters

Text Styles

Dim Styles

Is there anything else I can add?

Nick

What do you have set up in your drawing templates?

Dimstyles, Layers, Linetypes, Multileaderstyles, Tablestyles, Textstyles, a few layouts of standard sizes.

An xrefed titleblock, inserted blocks for the title block.

Forgot a very important one, Pagesetups

Havn,t You Got The Media City Standards To Set Up Your Templates

Havn,t You Got The Media City Standards To Set Up Your Templates

No? Are you working on Media City?

No, I have seen the standards which should give you a good start on creating your template.

Is there anyway of making a new tab and picking a template, and keeping all your pages setups and layers etc....

Is there anyway of making a new tab and picking a template, and keeping all your pages setups and layers etc....

The best way to pull information from a template drawing into an existing drawing is through the design center. Page Setups have to be imported manually or with a lisp file.

www.jtbworld.com/lisp/pagesetup.htm

I throught that if you have a template set up with all the settings you wanted and then you right right click over the layout tab and select FROM TEMPLATE, select the template you want doesn't that bring in all the layers and settings for that template?

I throught that if you have a template set up with all the settings you wanted and then you right right click over the layout tab and select FROM TEMPLATE, select the template you want doesn't that bring in all the layers and settings for that template?

It wont in one of the exisitng drawings ive got, which i didnt create

Another way to do it would be to open your template and then put the drawing into that template.

I throught that if you have a template set up with all the settings you wanted and then you right right click over the layout tab and select FROM TEMPLATE, select the template you want doesn't that bring in all the layers and settings for that template?

That brings in a few of the items but certainly nothing approaching all the custom items, styles, etc. in a template.

The best method is still using DC for an existing drawing. If the existing drawing uses PS for objects then copying and pasting becomes more of a problem, a two step process.