From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 3 Editing and Organizing Drawings

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Using layers to organize a drawing

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Using layers to organize a drawing

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Now that we understand the process of creating and modifying layers, let's see if we can use layers to replicate this drawing. Our goal in this lesson is to recreate everything except for the dimensions. If I come up to the Layer control, you can see this drawing already is organized into layers. We obviously can't create our new geometry in this file since the layers already exist. So, what I'd like to do is come up and launch the New command. We'll create a new drawing from the Acad template. I will then click the View tab, I'll come down to the User Interface panel and I'll chose Tile Vertically. This allows us to view the example file side-by-side with our new drawing. I'm going to click in the Example file. And I'll zoom this out a little and center it on screen. I will then come back and click to put the focus on my new file. And then we'll jump back to the Home tab. I'd like to start by creating some layers. I'll do that by opening the Layer Properties manager. Mine happens to…

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