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Changing layer states using the Layer control

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Changing layer states using the Layer control

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After working with the full blown Layer Properties Manager, you may be wondering if there's a faster way to change Layer Settings. The answer to this question is, yes. In this lesson, we'll use the Layer Control to make quick adjustments to our layers. On my screen, I have an unfinished drawing. One thing I still need to do is draw a circle representing a hole that will be drilled through this part. Before I draw the circle, I want to make sure I'm creating it on the correct layer. So I'm going to hover over this circle, and I can see it was drawn on Layer part. To set the Part layer current, I'm going to open the Layer control, and I'll choose the Part layer. I'm sure you'll agree, that's much faster than using the layer properties manager. Let's launch the Circle command, and I'm going to create my circle from the center of this one. And I'll give it a radius of 2.25. Next, I'd like to project the edges of this circle down, to the front view, to create the geometry representing the…

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