The bowl is filed to shape, often using a metal template.

Formerly, bats were hand-turned from a template with precise calibration points; today they are machine-turned to a fixed metal template.

For the siding and the roof, metal templates matching the contour of the top and sides are used to cut and shape panels of sheet metal.

Its stitch pattern is controlled by small flat rectangular metal templates, seven of which are included.

They decided to use 5-axis template copiers to produce the stringers, cutting from a metal template, and had already ordered the expensive cutting machine.

Turbo (15 April 1986) found the group introducing a "synth-guitar" sound to their metal template.

It has been suggested that he drew the rhumbs by using a set of metal templates for the seven principal compass points within each quadrant, as follows.

Similarly, porphyrins, which feature 16-membered central rings, form in the absence of metal templates.

Begrand compared the album to Head Control System, "in that it tends to stray from the typical metal template in an attempt at something a little more electronic influenced".