Templates

Templates allow us to get some of the…repetitive tasks out of the way so we can…focus on design and drafting.…Tasks, like setting up layers, title blocks,…text and dimension styles, and other geometry…you typically use.…Some CAD users will simply take the last project…they were working on and save as to get a new…drawing and erase the old geometry.…This is not the best practice, for a few reasons.…Drawings can become cluttered with blocks,…layers, and other entities that are not removed…by simply erasing the geometry.…

This also introduces a risk of accidentally saving…and modifying the source file, leaving you with…more headaches than you had intended.…Lastly, if there are already errors or issues…that existed with the original file, you're simply…perpetuating them into your new drawing.…Instead, you should create a template file…from a clean drawing and import any data…and geometry that you need.…For the purpose of this course, we should consider…this merely an exercise in the work flow.…There are many elements you want to have in…