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Creating and Editing Templates and Subassemblies
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4 You can click Browse to display the Template Path dialog box. Use this dialog
path to pick the folder in which the templates and subassemblies are stored.
Use the Path edit box to set a folder where cross section templates for the
current project are stored. This path can be used alone or in combination with
the root path to define the actual template path for the current project. The
User Preference Cross Section Templates root path check box determines
whether or not you are using a root path:
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When User Preference Cross Section Templates root path check box is
selected, the ADTPL key defined in the SDSK.DFM file becomes the root path.
Any folder you enter in the Path edit box is appended to the root path. The
combination of these two paths become the template path.
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When User Preference Cross Section Templates root path check box is
cleared, or if the ADTPL key is not defined in the SDSK.DFM file, the
template path will be only the folder you enter in the Path edit box.
Using the Root path in conjunction with the Path is very useful for creating
libraries of templates based upon project types, template types or project names.
You can set the root path to a common folder on a network file server then set
the Path to a specific folder for templates of a similar type or project.
For example, you could set the ADTPL key to h:\projects\tplates. Within this
folder you could have subdirectories for each type of project you are working
on. These subdirectories might include individual directories for various clients,
municipalities or DOTs or even template types such as residential, municipal or
highway. Since the ADTPL key already defines the root path as
h:\projects\tplates, you would only have to enter the subfolder name in the
Path edit box to access the templates stored in a specific template folder.
You could also set both the project root path (PROJECT ROOT) and the
template root path (ADTPL) to the same folder. This would force all new
template directories to be created in the PROJECT ROOT folder. If you create a
project called 95893, then a folder by the name of 95893 would be created
under the PROJECT ROOT. Since the ADTPL key is set to the PROJECT ROOT
folder as well, you would have to enter a folder name of 95893\tplates in the
Path edit box to force all templates for the project 95893 to be stored in the
folder PROJECT ROOT\95893\tplates.
NOTE
If the folder name you enter does not already exist, the command creates
the folder if you have entered a valid path. The Set Template Path
command copies the nullt.tpl and the nulls.sub default templates into the
folder as well. These template files must exist in the template folder.
5 Click OK when you have finished setting the path.