Architectural style TechDraw Template

[FBXL5]

Hi @Freakcad_User, how is your Python?

Maybe you want to have a look at Macro_TemplateHelper and try to adapt the macro to your specifications.

[Freakcad_User]

Hi @FBXL5 . Unfortunately my Python skills are nonexistent. I have read some about Python basics, and I’m getting more interested in learning, but I haven’t attempted to write any scripts yet. So many interests, so little free time! Thanks for pointing out that macro.

[paullee]

How do you draw the template? FreeCAD Draft wb? LibreCAD? Inkscape?

(I am not familiar with Inkscape and the like unfortunately)

[FBXL5]

How do you draw the template? FreeCAD Draft wb? LibreCAD? Inkscape?

I write them in a simple text editor as it is only quite simple XML code. Most tasks are juts copy and paste from a pre-existing template and tweaking values. Have a look at TechDraw_TemplateGenerator. But most of the times I use a macro similar to that mentioned in a previous reply.

I don't like the sometimes over-complicated outcome of inkscape.

[paullee]

Thanks

[Freakcad_User]

I used Inkscape, and mostly used this tutorial as a guide:
https://wiki.freecad.org/TechDraw_TemplateHowTo
I actually started with a page that I had created in another CAD program, then converted that into pdf and then imported that into Inkscape. This worked pretty well for the line work (though I eventually redrew a couple items in Inkscape), but did NOT work well for the text. I ended up having to redo ALL of the text in Inkscape.

[paullee]

Thanks, Freakcad_User and all.

[Freakcad_User]

FYI, there is an interesting discussion developing on the TechDraw forum section about automating titleblocks and sheet indexes that I think is of interest to the production of technical drawings with regard to BIM. Here is the thread:
viewtopic.php?t=82904

Todd M.

[paullee]

Looks cool

Looking forward to more improvement by the community