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Chapter 4 Working with Cross Sections
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Setting the Path for Templates and Subassemblies
Before creating templates or subassemblies, you need to set the location where
they are stored by setting the template path. The template path is a project-
based setting so that all drawings that are associated with a project use the
same path.
To set the path for templates and subassemblies
1 From the Cross Sections menu, choose Set Template Path to display the
Template Path dialog box.
2 Select the User Preference Cross Section Template root path check box if you
want to set a master folder where all cross section templates will be stored for all
projects.
The ADTPL path key defined in the SDSK.DFM file is used to set a master folder
where all cross section templates are stored for all projects and is referred to as
the Root path. This is common in network environments where all project data
is stored on a central file server.
The ADTPL key value can be set by editing the Path Settings using the Projects
ä User Preferences command. Since the ADTPL key is stored in the SDSK.DFM
file, it can be recalled each time a new project is created, making it very easy to
specify the template path for each new project. Because of the nature of
network environments, it is possible that many people do not use the same
drive map for the network volume where the shared template data is stored. In
these situations it is possible for each person to set the ADTPL key to the drive
that they use to reference the shared project data, since each person has their
own SDSK.DFM file.
For example, two people could create two different drive maps to the volume
\\Engrg. The first person could map drive h:\ to \\Engrg and the second
person could map drive k:\ to \\Engrg. By storing the root path in the sdsk.dfm
file, each person could define a unique root path pointing to the same template
folder. The first person could set the ADTPL key to h:\projects\tplates and the
second person could set it to k:\projects\tplates.
Although the ADTPL key can be used in network environments to set a
common template root path for shared projects, it is not limited to network
environments. The ADTPL key can also be used in single user environments to
set a common template root path for all projects on that computer.
3 Enter the name of the folder in which the templates and subassemblies are
stored.