Discover the process of creating a drawing template file for Civil 3D, from saving the file to navigating back to the working folder and changing the file name. The article also demonstrates how to create a new drawing by selecting the template file and how to save the drawing once it’s completed.
Key Insights
- The article guides us through how to create a Civil 3D drawing template file by saving the file type as DWT, an AutoCAD drawing template file, and navigating back to the working folder.
- After creating the template, a new drawing can be created by selecting the new template file and choosing the desired surface and label styles.
- Once the new drawing is created using the template, it can be saved by navigating to the working folder and renaming the file accordingly.
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Now that we've created our object styles and our label styles, we're ready to go ahead and create a drawing template file for Civil 3D. So in order to do that, what we're going to go ahead and do is we're going to go up to file, we're going to select save as, and then when this window comes up for save drawing as, we're going to make sure we're in our Civ 203 working folder.
We're going to go ahead and drop down to our file type, and we're going to go ahead and drop down and select a DWT, so an AutoCAD drawing template file. So once I've done that, Civil 3D is going to drop me into a different folder. I want to go ahead and make sure I'm saving it to the same location as all of my working files.
So I'm going to go ahead and navigate back to my working folder for Civ 203. I'm going to go ahead and change my file name. I'm going to be changing my file name back to my Civ 203, but this time I'm going to call it template.
So I'm going to type in Civ 203 template, and then I'm going to go ahead and hit save. So inside of here, I have template options. I can say template for Civ 203, and then Civil 3D is going to ask me to save all layers as unreconciled or save all layers as reconciled.
I'm going to go ahead and save all layers as reconciled, and I'm going to go ahead and click okay. And so now we're inside of a drawing called Civ 203 template.dwt. So I'm going to go ahead and close this, and what you're going to see here is that you may have under recents Civ 203 template. What we're going to go ahead and do now is we're going to create a new drawing by dropping down files, creating new.
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Civil 3D is going to ask us to select template file. I'm going to go ahead and navigate to my working folder for my class. So I'm going to go to my desktop.
I'm going to go to my Civ 203 working folder because I have my working folder on my desktop. I'm going to select my Civ 203 template.dwt. I'm going to select open. Now I am inside of a drawing called Drawing 3, but if I go to the settings tab and I drop down to surfaces and I drop down to surface styles, you're going to see the surface style that I have is design topo or EX topo.
Moving on from there, we could check out and see if we have anything for our label styles, our note label styles. We have our all-purpose or our lot notes. So all of those steps that we took in creating that drawing template file, now we have all of those pieces of information inside of this new drawing file that we just created.
So from here, we're going to go ahead and save this drawing. We're going to go ahead and do file save as. We're going to go to our working folder.
We're going to choose any of these options because I want to start with Civ 203. So let's go ahead and say Civ 203 blank. I'm going to go ahead and delete out blank, and I'm going to be calling this file Civ 203 grad because we're going to start setting up our grading drawing.
So Civ 203 grad, save. Once we've saved, you're going to note that Civ 203 grad is up at the top. Now that we've saved, I'm going to go ahead and meet you in the next video.
