Companies using AutoCAD are always looking for two main things:

• Unify their work to a certain standard (homemade or international).

• Speed up the process of producing any drawing.

The answer to these two issues is to create template files.

Template files will ensure the decision makers in any company that all the premade settings for the drawings are already done in the templates, hence this will cut production time by minimum of 30%.

Also, templates that are be handed to all users in any company will guarantee that these people will be using the same source. Accordingly, no personal initiative will be allowed, which will allow one system to prevail.

Template files are ^?.dwt.

These are the elements to be included in a template file:

• Drawing units

• Drawing limits

• Grid and Snap settings

• OSNAP settings

• POLAR settings

• Layers

• Linetypes

• Text Styles

• Dimension Styles

• Table Styles

• Layouts (including Border blocks and Viewports)

• Page Setups

• Plot Style tables

NOTE No need to include blocks in the template file, but rather store them in files (each category in a separate file like Architectural, Civil, Mechanical, etc.).

You can't save Tool Palettes inside a template file as Tool Palettes will be available for all files on a single computer.

Start AutoCAD.

Do the paperwork to prepare the above-mentioned settings. This step may need consultation with other people who operate AutoCAD in the same company.

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