What we're going to look at now is adding a new drawing via one of the AutoCAD Electrical template files, the dwt files. Now I'm hoping you've still got the WDDEMO project open. You must have 30X40s AutoCAD template + style settings implemented for this to function properly.- We're staying in our WDDEMO project and as you can see I've got DEMO02.DWG still open like we've had in previous videos. Including notes, symbols, title block + a short walk-through video tutorial with tips on workflow and things to include. This template is an expansion pack for 30X40s AutoCAD template (youll need that first) and gives you the hallmark 30X40 minimalist styling for your electrical plans.

So you need to make sure that you're using the appropriate dwt file from AutoCAD Electrical. Those attributes are all linked to the AutoCAD Electrical project, and it's really important that they are linked via the dwt file. In DEMO02, if I zoom into the bottom right corner of the title bar, just pan up a little bit, you can see there that I've got things like engineer, checked by, job number, drawn by, et cetera. Let me show you what I mean. The reason why you need to use an Electrical dwt file and not just a regular AutoCAD dwt file, there's loads of attributes applied to the dwt file. I'll show you those in a moment.

Now, as soon as I do that, I get this great big dialogue box with lots of information on it. We go to the Project Manager, with our project already open, we go to this icon here, new drawing. So, let's think about adding a new electrical drawing to our electrical project.

Now I'm going to go the name of this file, and I'm just going to call it DEMO99. So I click on open like that, and there's the file path in the template field here. So, what we're going to do now is just apply that particular file path to this new drawing. You'll see that that title block in the preview matches the title block here in the drawings. So you browse to where you want to use a template, and the template we're going to use is ACAD_ELECTRICAL.dwt.

So you might just have a standard drawing, with a title block and all it's got is a list of drawings and drawing numbers. If you click that box, the new drawing will not link to the project database. Now those are the only bit that I need to worry about, but there is a little tick box that I must mention here. And you can see there it is there, CatLinkedinLearningDemoDEMO99.dwg, that's where it's going to go, that's the name of the file that is going to be saved. You want to make sure you're using your AutoCAD Electrical project folder location, which in my case is the demo folder that I mentioned previously. Now the benefit I have there is, the location is here, and I can browse to any location.

So I'm going to click on okay, and you can see what'll happen now is in AutoCAD Electrical you'll see this little sort of updating pop up, that's updating the AutoCAD Electrical project database. The rest of it you can add at a later date if you want to. This one is for reference, so I've got the name, and I've got the template, that's the only info you need to create a new drawing. In the Project Manager on the left here, the little dwg logo will be gray instead of the regular blue and yellow if it's for reference only. So you might want to list that as for reference only so it doesn't link to the database.

Now if you haven't got one, just go to that standard template folder and copy and paste to a new location and set it all up the way you want it to work, and then put it back in that template folder so that you know where it is. That's why you need to use an Electrical dwt file. That information is listed in the project information, the attributes in the dwt suck that information out of the project, put it into the title block. I'll just double-click on the wheel to zoom extent again. There's a sample project, schematics and panel layout, there's a file path, and bits and pieces there. If I zoom in here like this, you can now see, look, there's some information there that's come in.

Autocad Electrical Template