Creating a title block

As mentioned earlier, all the drawing and editing commands will work normally in the paper space tabs; you can use them to create a frame and a title block for your drawing. The dashed lines showing the printable area will help you set the limits of your border frame. A good practice is to use fields with the text of the title block. Adding that to your template will automatically update the text if it undergoes any changes during the life cycle of the drawing's creation.

An example of this is the date of the drawing. If you have multiple drawings—and they have several versions—it will be a tedious task to always update the date on the drawing and the repeated process of updating often produces mistakes. You can simply ...

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