Hi Robert.
ROBERT PENN wrote:I have always used templates and symbols. I suppose I now just use it out of habit. I tried to use the symbol browser and just couldn't get used to it. I invested a lot of time when I started with datacad (5) to understand how the templates and symbols work and now know it intimately, I guess it's using what you are comfortable with, so my vote is to keep the T hotkey.
I also had an extensive library of templates and symbols (and an extensive filing structure to go along with it), also took the time to learn how it all works so that I wouldn't have problems with it, and knew it intimately. It seemed that when others got lost, I never did. I was also skeptical about making the change, for fear of losing the library structure that I spent years building. I am now
**VERY** happy that I took the time to do a bit of conversion in order to abandon the templates and the extra time it took to manage them, that is
NOT required when using the symbol browser method. I now have the same folder structure for the symbols that I did have with the templates (which means that navigating to your symbol locations work exactly the same), but now managing everything is
**WAY** more easier!!!
I guarantee that if you make the jump, it will be one of those things that you'll wish you did sooner.
If you need some additional info on converting your templates to symbols, here is a link to a previous post of mine on the subject...
http://www.datacad.com/bbs/viewtopic.ph ... ight=#1760