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Importing Default Settings

4. Select File> Print> Drawing Sheet 4. Select a template file from the Templates
directory or navigate to a different loca-
Setup and specify the desired print
settings. See “Drawing Sheet Setup Dia- tion and select a template from there.
log” on page 1324.
Updating Template Files
5. Select Tools> Layout> Page Down
to go to layout page 0 and use the CAD To change the default settings in your
tools to design a border and title block template, you must open the template file as
that suits your needs. See “Layout Page though it were a regular plan or layout by
Zero” on page 1313. selecting File> Open Plan or Open
Layout .
To set a template as your default
After the necessary changes are made, select
1. Select Edit> Preferences and go to File> Templates> Save Plan as
the NEW PLANS panel of the Template . Select your template from the
Preferences dialog. See “New Plans list of files in the Templates directory. When
Panel” on page 116. the program asks if you want to replace the
2. Click Imperial or Metric Units. existing file, click Yes.
3. Click the Browse button for either the
plan or layout template.

Importing Default Settings
Default settings are file-specific; • Layer Sets can be separately exported and
however, you can transfer many imported, as well. See “Exporting and
important default settings from one plan file Importing Layer Sets” on page 198.
to another by selecting File> Import> • Wall Type Definitions can also be
Import Default Settings. exported and imported. See “Exporting

Not all defaults settings saved in a plan can and Importing Wall Types” on page 389.
be imported from one file to another. For If the source file that you import from is from
example, Electrical, CAD, Floor, Framing, an older program version, it may be missing
Foundation, and General Plan Defaults are settings available in Version X10. If a default
not imported. setting is missing, the system default will be
• Defaults associated with Annotation Sets imported instead. For this reason, it is best to
are not imported but can be exported and review defaults before importing them and to
imported separately. See “Exporting and avoid importing any defaults that are not
Importing Annotation Sets” on page 96. actually present in the source file. See
“Template Files” on page 97.

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