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QNEW Template problem

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QNEW Template problem

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I have created a new template for our company drawings (ACAD 2015).  I have saved it to our server.  To get it to be accessible to everyone, I saved it as a dwg file on the server as a 2010 file and changed the extension to dwt (as I found that you can't "back save" a template file and this is how Autodesk says to do it).  But when I issue the QNEW command, the template doesn't open.  Instead a dilogue opens asknig me to select a template.  It DOES go to the correct folder where the new template is on the server - it just doesn't automatically open the template.  I have set all the template paths under OPTIONS to point to the new template.

 

Clarification - if I issue the QNEW command on the command line, the template opens.  If I issue the NEW command OR use the keyboard Ctrl-N, OR select new from the menu, the template doesn't open.  Is this because Ctrl-N & the menu are mapped to NEW rather than QNEW?  Can this be changed?

 

What is the difference between NEW and QNEW?

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

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múinteoir
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Can you check that you have set the below for the template?

 

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

sounds strange, my first try would be to copy the DWT file to a local folder and set within _OPTIONS the QNEW-setting to this file, does that work?

 

And as it sometime happens: are you sure you renamed the file correctly? When the Windows Explorer is set to hide known file-extensions a renaming might result in not-renamed extensions.

 

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Anonymous
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I want the QNEW template set to NONE?  Currently it is set to the template I want to use.  That doesn't seem to make sense.

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Anonymous
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Others on the network are having the same issue.

 

I did clearly rename the file.  That seems the only way to create a 2010 template in 2015.  The template file DOES open when I issue QNEW on the command line.  But not in the other new file creation options.

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

>> The template file DOES open when I issue QNEW on the command line.  But not in the other new file creation options.

That's the point: other new file creation options

 

Only the command _QNEW uses the template, but command _NEW does not. So if you use the old-style pull down menu "File" ==> "New" this does not start _QNEW, if you use the big-A menu ==> "New" does not start _QNEW, so none of them will open the template automatically.

With the default AutoCAD menu/default workspace only the 1st icon within the Quick-Access-Toolbar is starting the command _QNEW.

 

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rkmcswain
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SteveMSILLC wrote:

What is the difference between NEW and QNEW?

I think you have already figured out the answer to this question.

  • NEW allows you to select a template (or no template)
  • QNEW opens the template that you designate to open with QNEW.

As you dig deeper, you will find that the STARTUP variable affects the NEW command also.

 

Do NOT accept menu item names as the guide for what command the menu item is calling.

Read the command line and/or open the CUI file to see what command a particular menu item is calling.

Just because something says "new" in the menu - it could be calling the "new" command or the "qnew" command.

 

 

 

 

 

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