From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts.

Layers: Using layer states to enhance your AutoCAD drawings

Layers: Using layer states to enhance your AutoCAD drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

Layers: Using layer states to enhance your AutoCAD drawings

- [Instructor] Welcome to another tip and trick for AutoCAD. What we're going to look at today is working with your layers in AutoCAD which is fundamental anyway. But we're going to look at a specific function within AutoCAD that allows you to automate some settings with your layers in your AutoCAD drawings. We're going to look at specifically, layer states. Now we have a drawing for you in the library that you can download and open up to follow along with this particular tips and tricks video. It's called 202, layers-layerstates.dwg. You know the drill by now if you've been following the tips and tricks. Look up in the title bar you can see the name of the file. That's the file you should have opened in AutoCAD to follow along with this particular tips and tricks video. So once you've downloaded the file, opened it up, we can carry on with this particular video. So let's have a look now at layer states and how they work. You'll notice the drawing is incredibly simple. Some circles…

Contents