Creating Your Own Templates

A customer contacted me today about having trouble using our commands. The cause was that he was using a template that someone else in his company had made, and it wasn't compatible with our program.

You can easily make your templates to work with our program. Here are the simple steps:

1. Type in Open and Drawing Template (*.dwt) from Files of Type at the bottom of the window. Pick the template of ours that you want to use for a base (this is usually the HydraCAD Imperial Default)

2. When it opens you will be asked to pick a Drawing Scale. If you want to lock in a scale for your template, then pick it here. If you want to be asked every time you start a new drawing using this template, then pick Cancel

3a. After dealing with the above dialog box, immediately type in SaveAs. Type in the name you want to save the template as. We do this right away so you don't accidentally overwrite ours

3b. Type in a new Description for your template. Note the suggested description, below

4. Open up your company template (.dwt) or drawing (.dwg) and select all the objects in it. Copy and paste these into the template you just made

5. Save your new template

 

Note: This should be done after every major release of HydraCAD (i.e. V55, V56, etc)

Comments

[George Ali Blackburn]

You can also use AutoCAD's 'Design Center' tool to copy items (layers, blocks, layouts, etc) from your old template to the new one (you must have that drawing open).

For example, to copy a layout over, while in the NEW template;
1. Type ADCENTER at the command prompt,

2. Click the 'Open Drawings' tab,

3. Click on your old drawing from the list,

4. Go to 'Layouts' then right-click the Layout you want to copy and select 'Add Layout'