Chapter 16. Creating Your Own Templates: Part 2

  • Set the Sheet Size and Drafting Standards

  • Start the Drawing Template

  • Create the Drawing Title Block

  • Learn Timesaving Features for the Drawing Template

  • Save and Share the Sheet Format and Template

In the previous chapter, you began the process of creating many of the templates you have used throughout this book. In this chapter, you will be concentrating on the templates and sheet formats used in the chapters related to drawings. As you have seen in the previous chapters, templates that are properly set up can save you a lot of time.

When you created the templates for parts and assemblies, you needed to make only a couple of adjustments to the document settings. However, drawing templates have more that ...

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