Graphics Programs Reference
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Use a different folder from the one with your template drawings.
10. Enter the name of the drawing in the File Name text box and click Save.
The file is saved. Now, when you save it in the future, the regular file — not the tem-
plate file — gets updated.
The QNEW (Quick NEW) command, when properly configured, can bypass the
Select Template dialog box and create a new drawing from your favorite template.
The first button on the Quick Access Toolbar — the button with the plain white
sheet of paper — runs the newer QNEW command instead of the older NEW com-
mand.
To put the Quick into QNEW, though, you have to tell AutoCAD which default template
to use:
1. Click the Application button, then click the Options button at the lower-right
corner of the Application Menu.
2. On the Files tab, choose Template Settings
⇒
Default Template File Name for
QNEW.
The QNEW default file name setting is None, which causes QNEW to act just like
NEW (that is, QNEW opens the Select Template dialog box). Specify the name of
your favorite template here, and you get a new drawing file based on it every time
you click QNEW.
AutoCAD 2012 stores drawing templates and many other support files under
your Windows user folder. To discover where your template folder is hiding, open
the Options dialog box. On the Files tab, choose Template Settings⇒Drawing Tem-
plate File Location, as shown in Figure 4-9.
