Design your own template for the TechDraw workbench

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This video shows you how to create a new template for use in FreeCAD's TechDraw workbench.

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Contents
? 00:00 Introduction
? 00:52 Creating the sample part
? 01:43 Introduction to InkScape
? 02:13 Setting the template page size
? 02:37 Creating a basic template
? 04:44 Testing the template without editable text
? 04:59 Making the text editable (almost)
? 06:36 Testing the updated template in FreeCAD
? 07:04 Adding the last ingredient for editable text
? 07:20 More testing in FreeCAD
? 07:32 What happens if the text is rotated?
? 08:45 Using line styles, etc

Workbenches used:
? General
? TechDraw

FreeCAD namespace - The TechDraw workbench uses an XML namespace to draw the editable text fields on the screen. You need to create an attribute on the "svg" tag called xmlns:freecad and set it value to: "http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Svg_Namespace"

? InkScape website: https://inkscape.org/

FreeCAD links
? FreeCAD website: https://www.freecadweb.org
? Downloads: https://freecadweb.org/downloads.php

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