Change new layout default paper size

[oftenly]

My question is simply: how do I dictate what is produced when I press this button?

 

 

Right now I'm working off my own Standard.dwt file, where the first layout is set to an Arch D size, but every times I click that button for a new layout it gives me 8.5" by 11". I want it to be Arch D, forever and ever, when I click that button.

 

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but "autocad change new layout default size" and variants thereof do nothing for me in Google.

[Murph_map]

Go back into your dwt file and on your layout save it as a template, Type "Layout" "SaveaAS" and save that layout as a dwt. Then when you need a new layout that size/configuration etc just Right click on the + button and select "From Template" and select your saved template.

[oftenly]

Go back into your dwt file and on your layout save it as a template, Type "Layout" "SaveaAS" and save that layout as a dwt. Then when you need a new layout that size/configuration etc just Right click on the + button and select "From Template" and select your saved template.

 

I mean, I can do that already, and I just pick the Standard.dwt template. Right now, that's my normal way of doing it, and it takes four or five clicks each time.

 

Are you saying there's no way to change the behavior of that particular button?

[rkent]

Create a .dwt the way you need it. Then go to options, files, template settings, expand the Default Template file for QNEW, remove the existing then browse to your new one. OK to get out and it will use that one from now on.

[oftenly]

Create a .dwt the way you need it. Then go to options, files, template settings, expand the Default Template file for QNEW, remove the existing then browse to your new one. OK to get out and it will use that one from now on.

 

Ah, thanks. For some reason this morning the first layout from a new drawing would be the right size, but every subsequent layout would be different. I re-set that template file (I had set that earlier today, but I don't know if I screwed something up) and it started working the way it should. Not sure what the deal was. Thanks!

 

As an aside, each new layout will be created with an arbitrary viewport in the middle. Any way to get it so the viewport isn't created as well?

 

EDIT: can't delete the image for some reason. I'm having a bad computer day

[rkent]

To cancel the viewport creation, go to Options, Display, lower left is Create viewport in new layouts, uncheck that box.

[BIGAL]

What about just using the Layout command, have a look at the options

 

-layout c layout1 layout3

 

It would be pretty simple to check last layout name and add the new one with +1 etc. in a lisp.