Change Inventor Default Template

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to figure out a way to change the default template to one of my own creation. Now, I have a good grasp on the idea of the "Templates" folder and saving templates to there. My question is about a very specific problem: When I click the top-left-hand corner Inventor symbol, click the arrow next to "New," and click "Drawing," it opens up the Standard Inventor drawing template (screenshot attached of what I mean).

When I remove the Standard.idw from the Templates folder and add my own MyTemplate.idw, the same New Drawing procedure described above yields only an error message:
"Standard.dwg is not found."

Is there a way to change the file that this "New" "Drawing" points to?

Thanks!

  -Luke

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

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@Anonymous wrote:

add my own MyTemplate.idw, the same New Drawing procedure described above yields only an error message:
"Standard.dwg is not found."

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Simply save MyTemplate as Standard.  If you want to start from idw rather than dwg - change that in Application Options.

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to change the file that Inventor searches for as opposed to changing the file name?

[SBix26 · Accepted solution]

Nope.  Either name your template "Standard", or click New and select the template you want.  I prefer a combination of the two: we have three drawing templates, and the most commonly used one is named Standard.idw, but I always click on the New icon (or Ctrl-N) and then choose the one I want.

Sam B

Inventor Professional 2016 R3 SP1 Update 1
Vault Basic 2016 SP1
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, SP1

[Anonymous]

Gosh, perhaps that is something that Autodesk could look into - allowing us to point the template to the file we want.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I am sorry that I am not sure I understand the request here. You can always select a template (non-Standard) to start a new file. Certain workflows do default to "Standard" templates. Could you elaborate your requirements?

Many thanks!

[Nathan.Mantz]

When one clicks on the quick launch button to create a new drawing, Inventor defaults to opening the filename "standard".  There's no setting to open a different default filename.

One needs to click file->new-> {choose template filename other than standard} in order to create a new file with the desired template.

[SRSI-APohl]

I am on 2023 and still wondering if this can be done. It's so much faster to just click the quick new drawing and have it bring up the template that I chose to be default. I am only seeing the solution to change my companies default template name to "standard.idw" 

[KGehrelsUNHWD]

Agreed.  I'd prefer my users click on the button and get directed to the templates that I'd like them to use without having to name these templates as "Standard".  This way I can clearly identify which templates are ours, Inventor's or a client's.  Renaming these files messes with that completely.