From the course: AutoCAD 2017 Essential Training
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Other layer tools - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2017 Essential Training
Other layer tools
- [Voiceover] We're staying in the 10_ObjectLayerProperties.dwg, and what we're going to look at now, are some of the other Layer tools that allow us to work quickly and effectively with our AutoCAD drawings. Now, if I go to the Layers panel here, and look at the current Layer, now the Layers panel is obviously on the Home tab on the ribbon, remember, and you can see here that the Keyhole Layer is the current drafting layer. So that's that red Layer that the Keyhole is on here. This Layer here, so that's the Keyhole Layer. Now, it may be that I want to change a group of objects to that Keyhole Layer. Now all I'm going to do is change that entire bolt there to the Keyhole Layer, but just use one command, and one quick selection. So I go to the Layers panel, and if I come down here, there's some really cool tools, like Previous. That undoes the last set of changes made to the Layer settings. Or, Change to Current Layer. So if I click on that one, it now prompts me to select all the…
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