@Bthomas - You can find some relevant documentation in the Bin folder of your VENUS installation. For general information on the various types of labware definitions and their parameters, check out the following help document:
<install>\HAMILTON\Bin\HxLabwr3Enu.chm
This will provide some context to template (carrier) definitions which will need to be assigned dimension and site data (sites = where a rack nests). Of note for templates is that they typically need to be configured for use for autoload, which requires use of carrier labware properties for loading.
Relevant information regarding labware properties can be found in:
<install>\HAMILTON\Bin\HxGRUCommandEnu.chm
For more information, I recommend consulting section 10.2 of the VENUS programmers manual, which can be found in Eric’s downloads post linked below
When defining a template for the first time, I recommend using a copy of an existing definition as a starting point.
-Nick