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title: "Creating a Stencil File for your Building Objects within Avontus Designer"
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# Creating a Stencil File for your Building Objects within Avontus Designer

This article will demonstrate within Avontus Designer how to create a stencil folder for your building objects. This will enable you to organize your components for a better workflow within any drawing design, transfer them to a new computer, or share them with a colleague.

You can also view this article in video form on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDprXsDdSjk&ab_channel=AvontusSoftware)

To create a Stencil file of your Building Object.

1. Create the stencil
2. Click on **More Shapes** and select **New Stencil**

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-6BPHSHNU.png)

The stencil will appear ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-XJFYU2PJ.png)

1. Return to the main stencil
2. Click and drag the object to the new Stencil

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/place%20building%20object.gif)

1. Click **Save** ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-9CFF4TWZ.png)
2. Give it a name and click **Save**

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-8NZZSO83.png)

The stencil will be saved.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-L79CWTVD.png)