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Altering layer assignments for objects - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: AutoCAD Certified Professional
Altering layer assignments for objects
- [Instructor] The normal way in which you would control and organize your objects in an AutoCAD drawing is by way of utilizing the layers in your drawing. So we've got a new drawing for you here, it's called Organizing_ALTERINGLAYERS.dwg. Now the reason it's called Altering Layers is because everything on this drawing right now is on the default layer, Layer 0, and it all looks the same. It is, it's all white and it's using a continuous line type. Now ideally, you want to change all of this and change it up so that the different layers have different line types, different colors, and so on. And they are all set by way of objects to the ByLayer setting. I'll come back to the ByLayer setting in a moment. Let's get everything on the right layers, first. So if you go to the Home tab on the ribbon and look at your Layer pull down here, you can see that we've got Centerlines, Defpoints, Dims, Hidden and Object. Now all of those layers are available in this particular drawing. So what we…
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