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    Question Simple, yet....Layouts, Page Setups, & New Users

    Good persons,

    PRESENT METHOD ( I didn't say the best)
    I initially setup our template file(s) with the most inexperienced user in mind when we started using Acad Mech 2000 Power Pack.

    As we use paper space layouts, I had a layout tab named A, B, & D for each of our paper sizes used , you guessed it, A, B, & D sizes! I saved a page setup in each layout named just like the above.

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    DING!!!!!!!!!

    We actually could get by with one layout in the template file and choose page setups with the needed paper size, plot style, etc. defined within the page setup?

    Is that the way you 'do' your template files?
    Clint Hill
    Thrive in '05

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    Default Re: Simple, yet....Layouts, Page Setups, & New Users

    Hi

    Yep.

    Might want to have a read of the following thread -

    page setup

    Have a good one, Mike

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    Default Re: Simple, yet....Layouts, Page Setups, & New Users

    I advise all clients to create the templates to contain
    ALL required layout tabs with named layouts.
    This makes it very easy to add additional layouts
    through page set-up new layout from template function.
    The best practice might be several tmplates with the required
    layouts in them for their specific purposes, so that there
    are fewer layouts to pick from in each.

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    Default Re: Simple, yet....Layouts, Page Setups, & New Users

    Your needs may vary, but here, multiple layouts create more work. If you have objects in paper space (e.g. titleblocks), then you have to maintain them in each layout. You can't make a change in one and have it update all the other layouts. Our template contains the titleblock for the size of the final dwg. In the case of multiple sizes, multiple templates. You can however print any template to any size by scaling. For that, you have multiple page setups in the template. For example, we standardize on D size for most of our dwgs, some A. I have templates for both sizes. The D template has page setups for all the plotters/printes we have (5) and all the paper sizes we use (A,B,D). So it has 15 page setups, with a naming convention of "SheetSize - Printer". Just pick the name wich specifies the combination you want and print. This is far easier than chaning the tile block in each layout. Also, this is not the situation where each layout contains different "drawings" of the same model. But having different layouts of the same "drawing" just for plotting does not make sense to me.
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    Default Re: Simple, yet....Layouts, Page Setups, & New Users

    Quote Originally Posted by eljobe
    Your needs may vary, but here, multiple layouts create more work. If you have objects in paper space (e.g. titleblocks), then you have to maintain them in each layout. You can't make a change in one and have it update all the other layouts. .

    Good point Ed, and the reason behind the use of an XREF for ones titleblock for the active
    project!

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