The H-Factor

For the last six months I have put up with the fact that when I pick the New icon, I don't get the Start a New Drawing dialog, but instead get thrown into the 3D Land of Gray template. The only way around this for me is to pick the File pulldown then pick  New from there.

Here is what is going on: The New icon actually starts the QNEW (Quick New) AutoCAD command. When you start a drawing this way, you get some default template as your starting point. This happens because somewhere down the line you checked (or unchecked) a checkbox in some dialog box.

How to fix it? Well, I finally gave in and searched AutoCAD help for QNEW and found the answer – there is a setting in OPTIONS for this, as seen in the picture below. I went ahead and made AutoCAD now start with my own HydraCAD template: