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What I'm going to do now is apply the Page Set Up to the sheet. So I right click, Page Set Up Manager, I slap A2, double click on it and it applies that to my Layout 1. You can see their in brackets A2 DWF Plot. So I close that now, now I need to insert the block of the Title Block that I want to use for my template. So I click here, Insert and you can see that I've got my A2 Title ready to go, it's already in this drawing but what I can do is I can also browse for it if its locally somewhere on my C drive perhaps or my Network drive it's there. So I open that up. Insertion point, I'm going to untick that, I want it to go in 00, scale I want to 1, angle 0, click on OK, its already in the drawing so I just say yes to redefining it and then it goes. There is my Title Block in my drawing ready to go. So what I've got now is a Title Block and I've also got things like my layers ready here and I've got all my text styles and my dimension styles. What else do I need? Well I need to set up my Viewports as well. So what we're going to do here, we're going to go to View here and on the Viewports here in Full AutoCAD I can set up a Polygonal Viewport, just there. But it needs to be on the Viewports Layer so that it does not plot. So I go to the Home Tab, make sure I'm on my Viewports Layer now which is here and what I need to do as well, just check that your Title Block is on the right layer, its not, its on the Objects Layer. So I make sure that, that is on the Title Block Layer like so, notice it goes red and adopts the colors of the Title Block Layer, hit Escape to deselect. Now I can draw that Polygonal Viewport from the View Tab, Polygonal Viewport there, I utilize my Object Snaps now and I trace around the Title Block like so putting in my Polygonal Viewport. I right click and close and if I double click inside the Viewport you see it goes bold now and there's my View Port ready to be used. What is a good idea there is to set a known scale for that Viewport, maybe 1 to 50 like that and then double click outside the View Port. OK our Title Block is ready to go, what we need to do now is we need to Save It As a DWG first, always save as a DWG first so that you've got a back up file. So we go up to the Menu Browser, we click on File, Save As and I'm going to save it in this folder here, my Drawings Folder and I'm going to call it A2 Metric Template like so and I'm going to save that drawing in my Drawings File. I'm also going to save my DWT to the default AutoCAD Templates folder. So watch when I now go File, Save As off the Menu Browser and I change the files of type here to DWT it automatically defaults to the AutoCAD Default Template Folder and again I'm going to call it A2 Metric to be consistent Template and then click on Save. You now get prompted for a description so we'll go for Metric like so and then Template and again notice make sure you spell it correctly. Always get these bits neat and tidy, notice I've made a few keyboard errors there, make sure you check it, always, always check it, Metric Template and then I'm just going to put Dash A2 like so. Make sure the measurement is set to Metric here and then click on OK and you'll see now up at the top here your Title Bar says DWT. You saved that now so what you can do is you can close it, so I'm going to close that and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to open up a new file now and in my Start Up Dialog Box if I select template instead and scroll up my list now there's my A2 Metric Template, you can see the preview, click on OK and you now have a new DWG File that you can Save As but its all set up. If I go to the Home Tab now, you'll notice that my layers are available. If I go to the Annotate Tab you'll see now there's my text styles available, there's my dimensions style and so on. You can have as much information saved in a template file as you want. If you've got 250 of these drawings to do with the same Title Block and the same layers it's a good idea to set up a template.