Drawing templates

Drawing templates are used to set up standard drawing layouts, including titleblocks and views. You can set up drawing templates in the following ways:

• Using the default drawing creation method from the Drawing Options dialog.
• From the Edit Drawing dialog.

Drawing templates can contain views. If the drawing does not already contain views, views are copied from the template drawing when the template is set.

The created views:

• display the geometry currently displayed in the model window.
• have the same attributes as the views in the template model. For example, shaded or hidden views.

The view settings can be used to control the way in which the scale is set in the created views.

Tip: To set up a hidden view in a drawing template you must create solid or surface geometry in the view before setting the view as hidden.

Geometry displayed in a template drawing view is there as an aid for setting up the view, and is ignored when a drawing template is set.

Any balloons created from a template drawing point to the relative position of the created drawing. Balloons that point to specific coordinates in a template drawing follow the workplane coordinates of the created drawing. When the active workplane is defined on the model, balloons point to the coordinates determined by that workplane.

Levels in a view are copied from the views set up in the drawing template. We recommend that all the view levels in drawing templates are set to be visible.

Note: If view levels are hidden, the geometry on those levels is not displayed in the created views.