From the course: AutoCAD for Mac 2019 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Advanced layer tools

Advanced layer tools - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD for Mac 2019 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Advanced layer tools

- [Instructor] We've seen how to manually select objects and turn their layers off using the Layoff tool, but what about the reverse? Another tool in a similar vain, and one that I find incredibly useful is the Layer Isolate command. If you have a drawing with a lot of layers, and I regularly see architectural drawings with a hundred layers or more, turning off layers individually can be a very tedious exercise, especially if you only want to work with a handful of those one hundred layers. I'm going to start the Layer Isolate command here, and I'm going to choose a wall and a door object and then press return. All the other layers have been turned off. To restore the previous layer state, I'll select layer Layer Unisolate, and all the layers that were turned off by the Layer Isolate command are turned back on. Now, if I had previously turned off layers, or had frozen them before I did the Layer Isolate command, they will remain off and or frozen. There is one other setting down here…

Contents