From the course: Revit: Migrating AutoCAD Standards

Unlock the full course today

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

Naming and setting the layers to a known standard

Naming and setting the layers to a known standard - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: Revit: Migrating AutoCAD Standards

Start my 1-month free trial

Naming and setting the layers to a known standard

- [Instructor] Once again, we're in the 00_Office_GROUND_PLAN.dwg file, like we were in the previous video. What we need to think about now is setting and naming those layers to that known standard. Now as I mentioned previously, this drawing has been exported out to BS1192 from Revit. So the layer naming is already done. If I go into my Layer Properties in my Layers Panel again, you can see that all my layer names adhere to BS1192. So I don't need to worry about the naming, but what I do need to worry about is things like color, linetype, and line weight, and making sure that these are set appropriately. Now what you'll notice there, for example, is we don't actually have a viewports layer. So what I'm going to do there is I'm just gonna create a miscellaneous viewports layer, first of all. So I'll click there like so, and I'm just going to call it VIEWPORTS. I'm not gonna worry too much about BS1192 at the moment, and just for ease of use, I'll call it VIEWPORTS. Now you want that…

Contents