How can I reuse 2D cabinet layout drawings?

Purpose

This trick will allow to increase the quality of your project and help you to design faster your panel drawings, thanks to a feature implemented in 2017 release.

Description

First step is to create a 2D cabinet layout as usual, inserting the different materials, like the cabinet, rails, ducts, etc. Even dimensions can be added too.

After cabinet has been set as the desired template, from the documents browser, it will be saved as project macro through the command “Create project macro”

Data for macro should be filled under user’s decision

The template is ready to be used in any other project, for that, just use insert project macro command from documents browser.

Select the macro, and in the paste special dialog, select the proper values (keep, create or associate) for any object type.

Special attention with location, for projects with several locations, done in the project before to insert the cabinet template, the location should be associated to an existing one in order to work properly.