Thanks for articulating this. It’s always been a frustration that standard drafting symbols are not part of this program. Putting them into a template seems like a good idea. I wonder if this could be accomplished through Styles.
Std-Symbols are dependent on a BROAD range of Factors that include among others; Country/Trade/Discipline not to to mention your own custom style Office symbols. The “canned” symbol set available in LO is an Excellent starting point to develop your own particular Scrapbook Symbol Library.
Nino
Globally, can’t get two companies to agree 
It would be nice to have the standard ISO titleblocks in layout as templates. It takes forever to create a standard titleblock without possibilities as distributed alignment.
I guess Timble have a long way to go before Sketchup invades the pro marked. It’s still in the “baby class”. But it’s a great start.
Why does it take you forever to create a standard title block? That’s a simple enough thing to create in LayOut.
What does this mean?
Edit to add:
Here’s a simple ISO title block based on one shown at this website. It only took a few minutes to make and all the text shown in red is auto text.
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Still, it’s fairly trivial to do in LayOut. You could hire someone to do it if you aren’t up to it. The LayOut team are software engineers and not in the business of providing content. You need a content developer for what you want.
It’s only to be patient. Set up the grid measurement and devide it into each rectangle, but it take some houres. Next time a other ISO-standard titleblock is required, then I have to start it all over again
Why don’t you make the title block to suit your needs and include it as part of your standard template? Then you won’t need to make it again for the next project?
I save the title block I’ve created, but for some reason principals use different blocks
you can save it, but you could also make a scrapbook of different elements. I was fidling wih some electric symbols, but there are a lot and sometimes you don’t use them all so I made so you can drag individual elements or all in one:
The contents of the pages are double, and if you arrange the ‘picking order’ by Layer, you have control on what element is picked:
In this case, I did not bother to draw lines at all for the text, just use a Bounding box text, set up the shape and fill and that’s it:
FWIW. if a drawing contains more text then , ehm…, drawing, there something to gain.Electrische Symbolen.layout (99.5 KB)