Push template to opposite

Once you have completed the front elevation template, you can simply use the Push Template to Opposite button to do the other side.

Before doing the exercise below make sure you have completed the previous step, Apply coverings.

1. Click .
   This will bring up the Push Covers dialog.
   
   

2. You can either push only the double-sided covers or all of the covers. For this exercise, click on Double Sided Only.
   
   At a minimum, the double-sided covers should always be pushed. These are parts where a single part number brings is a pair of covers.  Examples are parts like the add-up panels (while a single part is visible on both sides of the template), crown, raceway and structural base covers. Since our layout does not require that we copy all the covers, we will only push the doubled-sided covers.
   
   

3. At the command prompt AutoCAD will display Select the side to push from: Select the elevation template that has the covers (the front). The command prompt will detail how many covers were pushed.
   Note:  If you select the empty elevation template, this command will push those empty covers to the other side, erasing all of your work. If this happens, undo will get you back to the original state.
   
   

4. After the command has been run, the double sided cover will be pushed from the front template to the back template.
   Note: Covers are correctly pushed to their correct mirrored locations on the opposite template.
   
   

5. Use Apply coverings to complete the back template. Place some marker boards.
   
   

6. Save your drawing.
   Note: Both the front and back elevation templates are now completed.  Yet, if we were to make a takeoff of this drawing now, none of our covers will be counted.  This is because parts drawn in elevation do not show up on take-offs.  2D and 3D parts are counted, but parts in elevation are not.  This is done because this one elevation template we have created could be pointing at multiple occurrences in the drawing.  If there were 500 identical workstations in this drawing, this one elevation template could be pointing at all 500.  If you want parts to be part of the take-off, you must attach the parts in the elevation template to their associated Cap standards in the drawing by using the Bind covers command.
   
   

7. Before running Bind Covers, see Copy Plan to 3D to look at what happens if you do not run Bind Covers.