TEMPLATES
Templates have cutouts to guide the drawing of
predetermine shapes.
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• Circle templates provide a graduated
series of circles commonly based on
fractions and multiples of aninch.
Metric sizes are also available.
The actual size of acutout differs
from the drawn sizedue to the
thickness of the lead shaft or pen tip.
• Some templates have dimples to
raise them off of the drawing surface
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Electronic Templates
Drawing and CAD programs includeelectronic
templates of geometric shapes. furnishings. fixtures.
as well as user-defined elements. The purpose of
physical and electronic templates rema insthesameto save time when drawing repetitiveelem
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• Templates areavailable for drawing
other geometric shapes, such as
ellipses, as well as symbols for
plumbingfixtures and furnishingsat
various scales.
A significant advantage of CAD programs is their ability
to h a symbol represent all instances of a graphic
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