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Templates are similar to the icon drawers, but work a little differently. Create a new Contouring icon and edit it. Set Contour Shade to On. Open the Templates tab at the bottom of the editor. This is a place where you can store icons (specifically Contouring icons since this is the Contouring editor). To see how they work, do the following:

• create another new Contouring icon with , set it to have black isolines (Contour Line Colour) and call it Black Contours
• drop it into the Templates tab of the open icon editor
• close the icon editor, then re-open it to confirm that your dropped icon is still there; it is now available in the editor of any Contouring icon
• to add the parameters set in the template icon to the edited icon, drag the template icon into the main part of the editor to simply make the currently edited icon the same as the template,- the Contour Line Colour parameter should now be black, but the Contour Shade setting should not have been lost
• to replace the parameters with the ones from the template, right-click on the template icon and choose Replace Icon; the Contour Shade setting is now Off because it was set to Off in the template icon

This mechanism provides a way to quickly build up new icons based on selected sets of parameters. For example, you could have template icons which activate shading with a nice palette, or which set the grid value plotting without replacing the other parameters in your icon.

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