topic Re: Change drawing template after creating drawing in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Change drawing template after creating drawing

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:22:38 GMT

I have a custom title block and a drawing template created, I'd like to go back to an old drawing (with the standard ISO block) and change the drawing template to the new, custom one.

Is this possible? Or will I need to insert the title block to every existing drawing?

Thanks,

George

Re: Change drawing template after creating drawing

cmiller66 — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:40:17 GMT

Hi George,

Once a drawing is created using a certain template, the template itself can't be changed. So you will need to insert the new title block (DWG) into the existing drawings.

Thanks,

Chris

Re: Change drawing template after creating drawing

TimeraAutodesk — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 19:44:47 GMT

Just as an additional note, if you add a new title block to the template, any NEW drawings created off of it *will* use that new title block. You'll just have to manually insert the new title block into existing drawings already created off of that old template.

Re: Change drawing template after creating drawing

jkolodner — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:17:55 GMT

This is still annoying in 2025 that templates cannot be updated/replaced in-situ on existing drawings.

Re: Change drawing template after creating drawing

jeff.gray.pe — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:06:55 GMT

agreed - there needs to be a feature to update a drawing to use a new template

Re: Change drawing template after creating drawing

sandip_dumbare — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:03:59 GMT

I hope this might help.
https://clintbrown.co.uk/2021/07/15/switching-title-blocks/#more-4651https://clintbrown.co.uk/2021/07/15/switching-title-blocks/#more-4651

Re: Change drawing template after creating drawing

scottprater — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:57:56 GMT

Holy crap this just saved me so much work.

Just to be clear; you still have to re create all of your drawing views, but you can use your new sheet template WITHOUT having to create a new file and lose all your previous version history.