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Creating Template Drawings One way to customize AutoCAD is to create template drawings that contain initial drawing setup information and if desired, visible objects and text. When a user starts a new drawing, the settings associated with the template drawing are automatically loaded. If you start a new drawing from the scratch, AutoCAD loads default setup values. For example, the default limits are (0.0, 0.0), (12.0, 9.0) and the default layer is 0 with the white color and the continuous line types.  In production drawings, most of the drawing setup values remain the same. For example, the company title block, border, layers, linetypes, dimension variables, text height, LTSCALE, and other drawing setup values do not change. You will save considerable time if you save these values and reload them when starting a new drawing. Standard Template Drawings AutoCAD comes with standard template drawings like Acad.dwt, Acadiso.dwt, Acad3D.dwt, Acadiso3D. dwt, Acad-named plot st...

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 Learn AutoCAD in 27 DAYS  Many people think that learning AutoCAD is hard. It’s not. Yes, there are many things to learn. But using AutoCAD is not difficult. The key is you need to learn one step at a time. Learn to walk before you learn to run. You need to understand the concept of each step; then you will be an AutoCAD guru. This article is not a tutorial, but what do you need to achieve before you can master AutoCAD Getting started AutoCAD is a computer-aided design (CAD) program used for 2-D and 3-D design and drafting. AutoCAD is developed and marketed by Autodesk Inc. and was one of the first CAD programs that could be executed on personal computers . AutoCAD was first released in December 1982  as a desktop app running on microcomputers with internal graphics controllers AutoCAD Interface AutoCAD interface now is easier for new users. I know many AutoCAD veterans hate ribbon and other interface enhancements. But honestly new and occas...