From the course: AutoCAD 2020 Essential Training
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Work with templates (DWT) - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2020 Essential Training
Work with templates (DWT)
- [Instructor] We're staying in our ConvertingUnits.dwg file and, as you can see, the rectangle is still there. We've got our coordinate settings on the status bar now set to metric. We've our annotation scale all now set to metric as well. We've been into the options and set whatever settings we need to set in there that reflect our metric drawing status. Now, it may be you want to save this particular drawing with all its settings as a template file to create other new drawings. Now, a normal CAD practice, if that's the case, is to remove any drawing objects from the model space. So, what you would do here is you would, obviously, delete the rectangle. I hit delete after selecting the rectangle and that's gone. What you might want to do is double-click on the wheel, just to do a zoom extents there, just to make sure that everything is zoomed out to an appropriate place when you open up a new drawing from the template. We've got our units set, our layers are all in place that we want…
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