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â– Title blocks, layouts and page setups: These should be created in templates
intended for use as plot sheet templates. Templates that are intended to
be used for sheet sets, especially, should have page setups saved within
them to serve as overrides when publishing a sheet set.
â– Multi-view blocks: Normally these should be stored as AEC Content or
tags, however if you want to use a custom column grid bubble block instead
of the default grid bubble, you should store it in the template.
NOTE Custom blocks do not scale correctly if you copy objects to which they
are attached (such as doors with door hardware) and paste them in a drawing
that has drawing units specified differently.
â– Classification definitions: Those classification definitions that you use
frequently are best stored in your drawing template, so that they are readily
available when you need to classify either a style or an individual object.
Items that should not be included in the template file:
â– Most styles: These should be kept in a style library drawing, with an
associated palette-based tool that allows users to import the styles into the
current quickly and easily on demand. Storing the styles in a style library
and providing tool access to them keeps your drawings from becoming
unnecessarily bloated due to unused styles in the drawing database.
â– Symbol-based content: These items are typically more effectively stored
as AEC content or in the case of callouts and schedule tags, a library
drawing. Again, palette-based tools provide quick and easy access to them
on an as-needed basis.
â– Dimension styles: AEC dimensions and the standard AutoCAD dimension
styles upon which they depend for their display do not need to be stored
in the template. Instead, you can store these in the same way as other
style-based content; in a style library drawing, and provide access to them
through palette-based tools.
â– Layer key styles and layer standards: While these can be stored in the
template, it is better to keep them in a library drawing and use the Drawing
Setup dialog to make sure that the most current layer key style is
automatically imported into a new drawing and any drawings that are
already in progress upon opening. This ensures that you are always working
with the most up-to-date version.
The layer settings in the Drawing Setup dialog. Note that a layer key style is set to
auto-import and that Save as Default is checked. This will ensure that even if you start
a drawing without a template, the correct layer key style will be loaded. Note also that
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