Draftsight Block Library
Looking for downloadable 3D printing models, designs, and CAD files? Join the GrabCAD Community to get access to 2.5 million free CAD files from the largest collection of professional designers, engineers, manufacturers, and students on the planet. Now, obviously DraftSight is open, you can see that,you can see DraftSight at the top of the screen there,you can see the DraftSight logo top left,the little D and the S as well.Now, what I'm going to do is take you throughhow to use a DraftSight template,to create a new.dwg file, a new drawing file.Now, the template file.
Standard.dwt is the default. Most likely it is set up to use decimal inches as the default units.
Standardiso.dwt is probably for users of metric units.
Four look to be based on different international standards: standardjis, standardansi, standardbsi, and standarddin.
As for standardgb and standardgost I couldn't tell you.
Open each one up and see if you can notice any obvious differences.
OK...standardjis.dwt adheres to the Japanese Industrial Standards.
Standarddin.dwt adheres to German standards. Deutsches Institut fĂĽr Normung', meaning 'German institute for standardisation.'
Standardansi.dwt adheres to the American National Standards Institute guidelines.
Standardbsi.dwt adheres to the British Standards Institute guidelines.
Is that enough information for you?
BTW, you are aware that you can create your own template and populate it with the layers, text/dimension styles, linetypes, etc. that you want right? You can also set up a sheet with your own title block and border to be part of the template.
Since your profile lists your location as United States then unless you or your company does international work I'd stick with the default template.
Edited by John Connor - 08.Aug.2013 at 18:32
Standardiso.dwt is probably for users of metric units.
Four look to be based on different international standards: standardjis, standardansi, standardbsi, and standarddin.
As for standardgb and standardgost I couldn't tell you.
Open each one up and see if you can notice any obvious differences.
OK...standardjis.dwt adheres to the Japanese Industrial Standards.
Standarddin.dwt adheres to German standards. Deutsches Institut fĂĽr Normung', meaning 'German institute for standardisation.'
Standardansi.dwt adheres to the American National Standards Institute guidelines.
Standardbsi.dwt adheres to the British Standards Institute guidelines.
Is that enough information for you?
BTW, you are aware that you can create your own template and populate it with the layers, text/dimension styles, linetypes, etc. that you want right? You can also set up a sheet with your own title block and border to be part of the template.
Since your profile lists your location as United States then unless you or your company does international work I'd stick with the default template.
Edited by John Connor - 08.Aug.2013 at 18:32