Lets say I constructed a drawing which was made from template A.drwdot. I have another template B.drwdot. Is there a way to just specify B.drwdot within the ‘A’ based drawing & save that as a new drawing without recreating the whole thing specifying B.drwdot from the onset? I could see this might blow up if the templates were substantially different so maybe not even an option. Maybe another scenario is A.drwdot got deleted & some poor soul is facing a bunch of drawings that need to be connected to an new drawing template.
There are many macros available, using which you can replace the sheet format from A to B. Search on the forums under API or Macros sections, and you will find them.
Please note that once a drawing is created, it is no longer connected to the original DRWDOT file. You can only change/update the sheet format, but that has to be done manually or via some scripts.
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if the A.drwdot got deleted it would be easy to open one of the drawings created with it and save it as the a.drwdot. If it is needed.
When I make templates I will usually copy the title block info from the b to the c and d. A’s are sometimes special in their layout but if they are simular enough it can be done too.
Thanks for the replies. I think I understand. An existing drawing is really just a ‘save as’ step away from becoming a corresponding template by saving it as .drwdot? The views layout, title block, font etc. are all preserved. Or maybe if you want a slight modification, its maybe more efficient to start with a drawing that exists, turn it into a template & modify a bit vs building the whole template from scratch. Is that the general idea? I will check into macros, I know enough to be dangerous.
Yes… A template is nothing but a blank starter file. You would get basically the exact same result by just saving a regular .slddrw and starting every drawing by opening the .slddrw and adding views.