AutoCAD MEP
product focus
2012
We have more that needs to go into our template, but now that we’ve set these first system styles and preferences, we will save our template for now.
SAVE YOUR SETTINGS IN A TEMPLATE Once you have set your system definitions and preferences for duct, now is the time to save those changes so you don’t have to set them up every time to begin a drawing. If you do different kinds of jobs and have different settings, you may wish to save several different templates with names per job type. Having several templates is not uncommon, but does take away from the automatic template loading that we are going to review.
3. Set the template to automatically load by selecting it for QNEW.
1. SAVEAS AUGI.dwt. (In your office, save where templates are stored on your network.)
You have now made it through the first steps in setting up AutoCAD MEP. We’ll continue the lesson in the next issue.
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2. Check layers to be reconciled. This avoids the annoying unreconciled layer message.
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