Alibre Design

Chapter 12 - Drawings12.6.2 Customizing an Existing Template‣ To customize an existing template:1. Open a new drawing workspace. The New Sheet Properties dialog box appears.2. Select the Template option and select a template from the list. To open a custom template notlisted, click Browse and select the template from the Custom Drawing Template dialog.Note: If you have previously browsed to another template folder, you can use the Defaultbutton to reset the template list back to the system template folder.3. Click OK in the Sheet Properties dialog box.4. 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 dialog box appears.6. Click Cancel.7. Right-click the sheet in the Drawing Explorer and select Activate Sketch on Sheet from thepop-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 is exploded intoindividual 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 Template as aDrawing" on page 368 or as a symbol see "Saving and Using a Custom Template as a Symbol"on page 369.Note: When you use the template, all of the entities will be placed on the continuous layer. You canright-click on an entity and choose Explode Symbol to explode the format and all entities will revertto their original layer. Most of the time you will not need to do this. It is only necessary if you needto see the different line styles for the entities in the template.367