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Looking at layer basics

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Looking at layer basics

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- It's very important in Alias, as we start to model, to be very organized in how we create our data and how we organize our data. Now, Alias uses a layer-based structure. If we look at the very top on a brand-new installation of Alias, we've opened up a brand-new file, and we have one layer assigned right now by default. Within Alias, you always have to have one layer, at least, active. In this case, the default layer is our active layer. We can tell that because it's yellow. If I click on this layer with my right button, you can see we can assign entities to that layer, we can pick objects. We cannot make this layer invisible. That's been grayed out. We can create symmetry and we can set a state, as well. Right now, there are no other layers within this particular file. Let's create some. Very simply, we're going to go up to our Layers tab, and let's just say New. The default name for this layer is L1. You'll notice it's gone yellow, because that's the active layer. I can…

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