In addition to these rules, since FreeCAD 0.14, information about the Border and Title block can be added to the template for use by the orthographic projection tool. If you plan to use any of these, you must add this line inside the opening tag, for example together with the other xmlns lines added by inkscape:

This makes FreeCAD able to detect specific items inside svg files, that other applications will just ignore. Several objects (specifically those created with the Draft Drawing command and if your template has editable texts) use a special Svg Namespace specific to FreeCAD.You will need to edit it with a text editor and isolate the comment above on its own line again. Beware that if you reopen and resave your template in inkscape, after adding the above line, inkscape will keep the line, but will add other xml elements on the same line, causing the template to not work anymore. This text above (which is actually an XML comment) must be on a separate line, and not embedded in the middle of other pieces of text. You can have the page size specified inside the opening tag, either without units or with 'mm'. However, you will often need to open the svg file in a text editor afterwards, to comply with the following rules. Templates are svg files, created with any application capable of exporting svg files, such as Inkscape. See also the tutorial Drawing Template HowTo. Creating templates for the Drawing module is very easy.

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