Chapter 4

Templates, Copies, and Arrays

Chapter Objectives

Introduction

In this chapter, you learn some real time-savers. If you are tired of defining the same layers, along with Units, Grid, Snap, and ltscale, for each new drawing, read on. You are about to learn how to create your own drawing templates. With templates, you can begin each new drawing with setups you have defined and saved in previous AutoCAD sessions or with a variety of predefined setups included in the software.

In addition, you learn to reshape the drawing grid using the ...

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