https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12716667#M17495 <P>Hello,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>if I want to open a new empty drawing, a popup always show and asks what template I want.</P><P>How can I open a blank drawing?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="dvrVSNMW_0-1713427955991.png" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1351399i2F75624AD0C78F0C/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="dvrVSNMW_0-1713427955991.png" alt="dvrVSNMW_0-1713427955991.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:12:42 GMT dvrVSNMW 2024-04-18T08:12:42Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12716667#M17495 <P>Hello,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>if I want to open a new empty drawing, a popup always show and asks what template I want.</P><P>How can I open a blank drawing?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="dvrVSNMW_0-1713427955991.png" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1351399i2F75624AD0C78F0C/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="dvrVSNMW_0-1713427955991.png" alt="dvrVSNMW_0-1713427955991.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:12:42 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12716667#M17495 dvrVSNMW 2024-04-18T08:12:42Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12716669#M17496 <P>right of [Open] is a small menu, open it</P> <P>and you can start a new drawing for metric system, or for imperial/british system.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:15:48 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12716669#M17496 cadffm 2024-04-18T08:15:48Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12716681#M17497 <P>I think it is not showing with me... ?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="dvrVSNMW_0-1713428369446.png" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1351403iEBA61BB8AC4FB08A/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="dvrVSNMW_0-1713428369446.png" alt="dvrVSNMW_0-1713428369446.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:19:32 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12716681#M17497 dvrVSNMW 2024-04-18T08:19:32Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12716759#M17498 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="cadffm_0-1713430622727.png" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1351420i8F02F9499B1C4970/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="cadffm_0-1713430622727.png" alt="cadffm_0-1713430622727.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>But I guess you want another thing.</P> <P>You like to use a template, but you don't like to select a template file every single time, or?</P> <P>Create your own template, or use the acad.dwt (for imperial) or acadiso.dwt for metric drawings</P> <P>and set this template as QNEW</P> <P>Options/Files/Template...... QNEW</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>And from now QNEW using this template for a new file.</P> <DIV id="simple-translate" class="simple-translate-system-theme"> <DIV> <DIV class="simple-translate-button isShow" style="background-image: url('moz-extension://bdcf6203-1d8d-4f0c-b98e-eba5f03789eb/icons/512.png'); height: 22px; width: 22px; top: 244px; left: 516px;">&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV class="simple-translate-panel " style="width: 300px; height: 200px; top: 0px; left: 0px; font-size: 13px;"> <DIV class="simple-translate-result-wrapper" style="overflow: hidden;"> <DIV class="simple-translate-move" draggable="true">&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV class="simple-translate-result-contents"> <P class="simple-translate-result">&nbsp;</P> <P class="simple-translate-candidate">&nbsp;</P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:59:30 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12716759#M17498 cadffm 2024-04-18T08:59:30Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12716768#M17499 <P>No, 99% of the time I open a template. But for now I need to make some new blocks and I like to start with an empty drawing. But I don't know how...</P> Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:03:30 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12716768#M17499 dvrVSNMW 2024-04-18T09:03:30Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12716773#M17500 <P>And I can now <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="dvrVSNMW_0-1713431047092.png" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1351424i71F7612EDFB51538/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="dvrVSNMW_0-1713431047092.png" alt="dvrVSNMW_0-1713431047092.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Ty very much!</P> Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:04:17 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12716773#M17500 dvrVSNMW 2024-04-18T09:04:17Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12717298#M17501 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7061903">@dvrVSNMW</a>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /><P>I think it is not showing with me... ?</P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="pendean_0-1713444684658.png" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1351527i2E7C8AC810491BB3/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="pendean_0-1713444684658.png" alt="pendean_0-1713444684658.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:51:27 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12717298#M17501 pendean 2024-04-18T12:51:27Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12717763#M17502 <P>ctrl+n and quite fast after that enter opens, without the popup screen, the last used template. Nowadays Autocad is unable to keep up when you work fast so the popup is not showing at all.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>This is due to the neverending slowing down after R2004</P> Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:25:59 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12717763#M17502 marcel.vandenoosterkamp 2024-04-18T15:25:59Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12717969#M17503 <P>I think you get the same result if you WBlock from any drawing. AutoCAD automatically uses a "blank" template.</P> Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:50:15 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-open-an-empty-drawing-without-template/m-p/12717969#M17503 RSomppi 2024-04-18T16:50:15Z