How to Create Templates in AutoCAD

Arguably the most famous and the most commonly used 3D modeling software ever, we all know about AutoCAD. It is a computer aided design and drafting solution brought to you by Autodesk. Today, we will learn how to create templates in AutoCAD.

As a design engineer, you often need to do the same type of design over and over again, don’t you? Every time you start one of these projects, you have to build the same things up from scratch. This can get frustrating. So, what do you do? Do you just copy-paste your previous design and make changes in that?

That’s a bad idea. It's prone to errors and you might end up doing more work than before.

What would be better is to keep a handy “basic” drawing available that is common to all of these drafts you have to make. Then keep using this “format” every time you start a new drawing of that kind. 

This is, basically, what templates are all about. Templates are “basic format” drawings which are saved in separate locations and are used as the starting skeleton for particular kinds of drawing.