Jay Hatfield Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 What's the easiest way to save a dimension style and open it up in a new drawing? I know that you can do it with the command "adcenter" Any other ways? Quote
nestly Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 Put the Dimstyle in your drawing template. Same for your Text Style(s), MLeader Style(s), Linetypes, Standard Layers, Blocks, Layouts, Scale List etc. Quote
rkent Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 What nestly said, then in adcenter set the template as Home, anytime you need any of those items to drag over you open DC, pick on Home, and you are ready to start dragging and droping. Quote
Jay Hatfield Posted February 21, 2012 Author Posted February 21, 2012 If I don't have a template and I use architecture scale, what is the best template to use or should I start one from scratch and/or how? I've developed the bad habit of copying a previous file and have layers, blocks, etc. that I don't necessarily need. What's the best template to start from? In "imperial" there's a bunch of .dwg files, but not sure which to use if any. Thanks again for all the help and I think I can figure this out, just hoping to take some shortcuts and you guys have already given me a couple. Quote
Dadgad Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 If I don't have a template and I use architecture scale, what is the best template to use or should I start one from scratch and/or how? I've developed the bad habit of copying a previous file and have layers, blocks, etc. that I don't necessarily need. What's the best template to start from? In "imperial" there's a bunch of .dwg files, but not sure which to use if any. Thanks again for all the help and I think I can figure this out, just hoping to take some shortcuts and you guys have already given me a couple. Select a likely candidate from your own drawings which you will save for use as a template. Create a copy of it, and strip out any blocks which you don't want in your template. Purge it, then SAVEAS .dwt file. Later you will find it has been added to your template list, and if you want to you can specify it as your QNEW drawing template. Be careful not to purge things which may be of use to you. I make lots of templates, for different tasks and projects, just takes a minute and very helpful. Greatly increases your speed and standards conformity. Quote
nestly Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 Yep, I'd use a drawing you already have set up. Delete anything that you don't want to re-use, then SaveAs "JayHatfield.dwt" Next, go to Tools > Options > Files > Template Files and make JayHatfield.dwt the "Default Template file for QNEW" Quote
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