From the course: AutoCAD: Preparing Drawings for Revit Linking
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Optimizing your layers - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Preparing Drawings for Revit Linking
Optimizing your layers
- [Instructor] So we're staying in our 02_OFFICE_ReceptionArea drawing, and as you can see I'm in the models space there, and in the previous video, we talked about layer naming philosophies, and making sure that you adhere to one. So it might be a CAD standard, a project standard, or an internal company standard. The other thing you want to do, is before you take any CAD file into Revit itself, you want to optimize the layers that you have in your AutoCAD drawing. So again we're gonna go to the home tab on the ribbon, and we're gonna open up our Layer Properties manager, in the Layers Panel there. Now, when you scroll down the names of all the layers we've got here, you can see that there's lots of different names. And some of them have very similar prefixes. So for example, you've got A-GLAZ, Curt GLAZ, and if you come down here, you've got A-WALL, and WALL PATTern, and they're different colors and different layers. If I come down a little bit more, down here, for example, you've…
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