Prototype Projects in ADT

[pdx melissa]

We are currently running ADT 2006.

We deal with a lot of projects that are based on prototype projects, and we have recently moved from 2d drafting with autocad to 3d drafting with ADT. The old way, we would just "saveas" the prototype project, and quickly make changes to the base drawings and sheets. With ADT, we find ourselves having to create every sheet from scratch through Project Navigator, and then using the saveas command to copy over all of them with the prototype drawings. This turns a one-step process into a three-step process. Is there a way to set up a template project that includes sheets, views, constructs and elements that replicate into the new project? Or another way (other than having to drag-and-drop them all from explorer, or the multi-step saveas method above) to get everything we need copied over quickly and easily? Is anyone else dealing with this problem? We don't want to give up the added expediency of working with ADT, for the projects that end up deviating more from the prototype than originally anticipated.

[Steve_Bennett]

Please note I have moved this to the Project Navigator (http://forums.augi.com/forumdisplay.php?f=395)forum.

[Steve_Bennett]

Well, what you asking for is a feature readily availible in ADT 2007. Since you are still in ADT 2006, take a look at these threads for some ideas/things to watch out for.

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=46946 (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=46946)
http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=50114 (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=50114)

[jbayne]

We are using ADT 2006 also. What we have done is we had a really good project early on that was set up correctly and worked well. Inside Project Browser we started a new project and the box at the bottom you can check the box 'Create from template project' and then specified the one that was working for us. We created a project named Standard Project Template. After that it took a little work to get all of the information that was not needed (geometry of the old project while still specifying where to draw all new geometry) so that the view and the sheet would already be looking at the same area.
We put our title block minus sheet att in the constructs so all we have to do is modify project information.
The down side to this is the sheets that came in from project template look just like sheets that have the new good information on them so we need to be careful to delete old sheets if they are not to be used.
Hope this helps