Creating Custom Drawing Templates

[Anonymous]

Hi Folks

I need to create a custom drawing template for my students. Can someone direct me on how to make one. Or is there a tutorial.

Thanks

Mark

[Anonymous]

My biggest headache, is that i've made the template IN Fusion and still it tells me that it can't be inserted, due to having blocks in it.

[TimeraAutodesk]

Did you create it in the Drawings workspace, or somewhere else in Fusion? Some additional detail or files would help us to help you. 

[Anonymous]

I did create it in the Drawing workspace. When i select the template in other drawings, it shows no title block. When i try to output it as DWG and import it into a new drawing, it makes the previously mentioned error, including blocks etc.

[TimeraAutodesk]

Title Blocks are always embedded in templates (and drawings created from those templates), so it should definitely show up for you from Settings to toggle through on any given sheet:

Are you using Templates? If so, can you share the templates or drawing files with us to look at to help you better? 

[aross2YZTA]

Has there been any development on the function of templates and drawing mode?

I too have the same problem mentioned above. I need to use my company template and fusion essentially requires you to have AutoCAD to make custom drawing templates. This seems like a back-handed way of increasing profits at the expense of user satisfaction and functionality....I am on the verge of cancelling fusion and changing to Solidworks professionally even after I pushed for Fusion. I will be switching over if I run into another massive oversight like this again. The more I model and work with my tool room the more I understand how far fusion is from being a complete package...

[royshearer]

Is it seriously still impossible to create drawing templates in Fusion 360?

[g-andresen]

Hi,

If you call File > New Drawing > New Template you can either create your own individual template with your own title block in Fusion or import a DWG block.

But this has been possible for a long time.

günther

[royshearer]

Aha, thanks! I couldn't find any mention of this by searching the
forums, weirdly.

So, next question is, how do I take an existing drawing and create a
template from that? i would expect it to be in 'Save as' but its not.
I found one reference in the forums to this being in the 'Output'
toolbar dropdown but this appears to have been deprecated.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

I am not aware that it is possible to create and save a new template with title a new template from an active drawing .
This is how I make it:
1st file > New drawing > New template
2nd selection : ASME or ISO + format
3. double-click on Title Block > Change Title Block
4. editing of the title incl. insertion of logos etc.
5. save with the name of the new template in separate folder (datapanel)

Later, if you have several sheets, you can swap different titleblocks between each other.

günther

[royshearer]

So, I have made a bit of progress - there are a number of things about this workflow that are confusing.

To make a template from an existing drawing:

1. Select File/New Drawing/New DrawingTemplate - (NB. this submenu in the File menu is different to the one you get when you use the far left button of the main toolbar (to go into Drawing work space) for some reason).
2. Then the new drawing template ITSELF requires a 'Template' (this nomenclature is confusing for a variety of reasons). Select your existing drawing here using Browse... in the 'Template' dropdown menu.
3. It then opens your starter drawing in the New Drawing Template workspace.
4. Edit this as needed -  you can go into Edit Title Block to edit the title block as in a drawing, and come out to populate it with default values. At this point the title of the drawing template is the same as the drawing you used as a starter - don't worry about this for now.
5. Then go to File/Save and despite the file already appearing to have a name (see above), you are offered a dialogue to give it a name and file location.

Then to use the new template:

1. Start a new drawing.
2. In the Template dropdown menu (confusingly this is the same dialogue as what you get when you make a new template) choose Browse... and find the template file you just made.

To summarise the confusing things for me here are:

• Not having the new drawing template option in the workspace menu. Things like this should be consistent.
• The dialogues being the same for new drawing and new drawing template. They should look different.
• The idea of using a drawing as a 'template' for a new drawing template. Different terminology would be better.
• The New Drawing Template workspace using the starter drawing filename as its filename. This should be Untitled.
• Being offered a Save As dialogue when you go to File/Save in the New Drawing Template workspace. The option should be Save As.
• Having to browse to find the template you just made - ideally this would already be added to the Template dropdown.
• Having to do any of this - the expected behaviour from other programs is simply to open an existing drawing and choose Save As and choose template as a format. Then open the new file to edit the template. If it aint broke..

[g-andresen]

Hi Roy,

just so much:

I ´m using the described procedure as long as there is the possibility of editing in the Fusion drawing environment, and that is not just a period of a few months.
Like me, all my colleagues do it.

So far we have no problem with that, except that sometimes you prefer to go left when you enter a place than right, but that's about it*.

günther

* It also serves the creativity to leave known paths.

[royshearer]

Thanks for this Günther!

[royshearer]

Absolutely!

Just thought the developers would appreciate some user experience feedback.

[TimeraAutodesk]

Hey @royshearer , thanks for the detailed feedback. Regarding the usability of this workflow, I'll pass this along to my design partner.

I do want to chime in that there is a direct way to create a template quickly off of any existing drawing. With the drawing open, go to File > Save As > and then choose the f2t file type from the dropdown (.f2t = template file type).

Hopefully this helps streamline what you were trying to accomplish!

[royshearer]

Aha! even better, thank you!