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Working with templates using AutoCAD DWT files

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Working with templates using AutoCAD DWT files

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- [Instructor] Up until now we've been working with DWG files. Those are your default AutoCAD drawing files. That's what DWG stands for, drawing. Now sometimes though, you want to be able to have a group of settings set up in a drawing that are standard and this is where your CAD standards start to develop. So, you might have a standard list of layers that you're using in an AutoCAD drawing. You might have a standard set of unit settings that you might be using in an AutoCAD drawing. So, what you need to do there is you need to save those settings to what is called an Auto AutoCAD template file. A DWT file, not a D-W-G, a D-W-T. So what we're going to do, we're going to look at some settings in a DWG file, then we're going to save it as a DWT file and then we're going to open up a new drawing from that template so that you can see how it works. The drawing you need to open up from the library is called SimpleTemplate.dwg. So, make sure you've got that downloaded from the library. Open…

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