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Interface: Using the Visual Effect Settings dialog in AutoCAD

Interface: Using the Visual Effect Settings dialog in AutoCAD - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

Interface: Using the Visual Effect Settings dialog in AutoCAD

- [Instructor] Welcome to another AutoCAD tip and trick. We're going to have a look, now, at the visual effect settings in AutoCAD. We've got a drawing to do that with and it's called Visual Effect.dwg and you can download it from the library to follow along with this tips and tricks video. In the drawing, we have two rectangles. This rectangle, here, if I hover over it, you'll see is on the layer Unlocked and it's red and it's also an unlocked layer. This rectangle is on a yellow layer called Locked and it is a locked layer. You can see the little padlock appearing next to the crosshair, there. So if I go to the drop down here, in the layers, you can see Locked, Unlocked, and you can also see the little blue padlock, locked, unlocked. Now, the reason I've got a locked layer is I just want to show you something in the visual effect settings when we go to them. Now, your visual effect settings are what appear when you select objects. So if I do a little crossing selection over that…

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