Alibre Design

Chapter 12 - Drawings4. If the Fill In Text dialog box appears, complete any applicable fields.5. Click OK when finished with the Fill In Text dialog box. The Insert Design dialogbox appears.6. Click Cancel.7. Right-click the sheet in the Drawing Explorer and select Activate Sketch onSheet from the pop-up menu.8. Move the mouse pointer over the drawing border. The border is highlighted.9. Right-click and select Explode Symbol from the pop-up menu. The template isexploded into individual segments.10. Make the necessary changes to the template.11. From the Sketch menu, select Activate Sketch to leave the sketch mode.12. Save the custom template as a drawing see "Saving and Using a Custom Templateas a Drawing" on page 385 or as a symbol see "Saving and Using a CustomTemplate as a Symbol" on page 386.Note: When you use the template, all of the entities will be placed on the continuouslayer. You can right-click on an entity and choose Explode Symbol to explode theformat and all entities will revert to their original layer. Most of the time you will notneed to do this. It is only necessary if you need to see the different line styles for theentities in the template.12.6.3 Saving and Using a Custom Template as aDrawing‣ To save a custom template as a drawing:1. From the File menu, select Save As. The Save As dialog box appears.2. Navigate to the desired location in either a repository or the file system.3. Specify a name for the drawing template.4. Click Save.385