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Working with templates: DWT

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Working with templates: DWT

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- [Instructor] In this particular chapter up until now we've talked about units and options. Now, obviously once you've set your units in a drawing you can work to those units and develop your design in AutoCAD, but wouldn't it be nice if you could preset, not just your unit settings but also a lot of other settings in a drawing and then save it as a particular template file so that you can open a new drawing from it. Well, it's very, very quick and easy to do. I'm going to show you how to create a very simple template. So what you would normally do is start with a new DWG file. So you'd go to new in AutoCAD and go to either a metric or imperial setting in that particular DWG file. So the first thing you would do in my case because I'm working in metric is set my units. So we go to the units com like we've done previously and set all of my drawing units so that when I create anything in this drawing it's working to a…

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