Okay, I'm a couple days early with my New Year's wish, but I'm hoping most of you won't be at work tomorrow or Friday to read the blog. :-)In honor of the new year, I thought I'd post about the NEW and QNEW commands.There are a ton of different ways to start a new drawing: from the Application Menu, Quick Access Toolbar, Ctrl+N, and of course typing NEW and QNEW. (Did I leave any out?) Most of these ways involve choosing a template from a dialog box.  But with a little help from the Options dialog, you can suppress this dialog when using the QNEW command.To do this, you need to specify a file for the "Default Template File Name for QNEW".   As you see above, the default is "none", but you can put in the path to your own DWT file instead. (Note: DWT, not DWG.)Once you have a file in there, clicking the New icon on the Quick Access toolbar or typing QNEW automatically starts a new drawing from your specified template, without sending you through the dialog box first.You can also use the CUI editor to change Ctrl+N to call QNEW instead of NEW, thereby bypassing the dialog box every time. Just go to Keyboard Shortcuts, Shortcut Keys, and change the command for Ctrl+N to QNEW instead of NEW. (Click on the image to see it full-size.) Hope everybody has a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend -- see you in 2010!

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