DT_NEW_FROM_TEMPLATE

Lists the permit templates published for your team, downloads and integrity-checks the one you pick, and opens it as a new untitled drawing. This is the front door to a project: start here, save the new drawing into your project folder, then run LOAD_DT. It works with no drawing open, so it's also a quick action when AutoCAD is sitting empty.

On the ribbon: JobEngine → Drawing Tools → New from Template

When to use it

At the very start of a new permit set, so you're always working from the current template rather than copying an old file. If more than one template version is available you're asked to pick; if there's only one, it opens straight away.

What it does

1. Fetches the active templates published for your team.
2. Shows What's new when the selected template has release notes. Review by page or by component; entries that require manual work say so explicitly.
3. Downloads the one you pick and verifies it matches the published file before opening it.
4. Opens it as a new untitled drawing — save it into your project, then run LOAD_DT.

What's New opens automatically for a template that has not been downloaded on this machine. For an already downloaded template, the same notes remain available in a collapsed section so Open stays quick.

Beta (feature-channel) templates only appear when an admin has turned them on for your machine; otherwise you see the standard templates only.

Prerequisites

• Signed in (run SIGN_IN_DT or LOAD_DT once if not).
• Nothing else — you don't need a drawing open; this command creates one.