Arguably the most famous and the most commonly used 3D modeling software ever, we all know about AutoCAD. It is a computer aided design and drafting solution brought to you by Autodesk. Today, we will learn how to create templates in AutoCAD.
As a design engineer, you often need to do the same type of design over and over again, don’t you? Every time you start one of these projects, you have to build the same things up from scratch. This can get frustrating. So, what do you do? Do you just copy-paste your previous design and make changes in that?
That’s a bad idea. It's prone to errors and you might end up doing more work than before.
What would be better is to keep a handy “basic” drawing available that is common to all of these drafts you have to make. Then keep using this “format” every time you start a new drawing of that kind.
What would be better is to keep a handy “basic” drawing available that is common to all of these drafts you have to make. Then keep using this “format” every time you start a new drawing of that kind.
This is, basically, what templates are all about. Templates are “basic format” drawings which are saved in separate locations and are used as the starting skeleton for particular kinds of drawing.
Templates in AutoCAD are one of such features which help us to reduce our work and to save time. Before starting a new design project we have to change many settings in the drawing page like units, sizes, dimension styles, layers, etc. It is not easy and practical to do the settings every time you start a new drawing.
There are many online construction templates available. But also, you can create a custom template in AutoCAD. You can define your own parameters in this template. They are saved with DWT file extension. When you use it to start a drafting project, then you can save it in standard AutoCAD DWG format.
Let us see how we can create templates in AutoCAD in eight simple steps.
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Published By
Rajib Dey
www.constructioncost.co
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As a design engineer, you often need to do the same type of design over and over again, don’t you? Every time you start one of these projects, you have to build the same things up from scratch. This can get frustrating. So, what do you do? Do you just copy-paste your previous design and make changes in that?
That’s a bad idea. It's prone to errors and you might end up doing more work than before.
What would be better is to keep a handy “basic” drawing available that is common to all of these drafts you have to make. Then keep using this “format” every time you start a new drawing of that kind.
What would be better is to keep a handy “basic” drawing available that is common to all of these drafts you have to make. Then keep using this “format” every time you start a new drawing of that kind.
This is, basically, what templates are all about. Templates are “basic format” drawings which are saved in separate locations and are used as the starting skeleton for particular kinds of drawing.
Templates in AutoCAD are one of such features which help us to reduce our work and to save time. Before starting a new design project we have to change many settings in the drawing page like units, sizes, dimension styles, layers, etc. It is not easy and practical to do the settings every time you start a new drawing.
There are many online construction templates available. But also, you can create a custom template in AutoCAD. You can define your own parameters in this template. They are saved with DWT file extension. When you use it to start a drafting project, then you can save it in standard AutoCAD DWG format.
Let us see how we can create templates in AutoCAD in eight simple steps.
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Published By
Rajib Dey
www.constructioncost.co
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