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Setting up a markup layer - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Effective Annotating
Setting up a markup layer
- [Instructor] We're now moving into another chapter of the Annotating Effectively in AutoCAD course. You'll notice we have a new drawing, which is 08_MarkUp.dwg. We're going to be looking at marking up an AutoCAD drawing. You may recognize the drawing as the drawing from the previous chapter. And, yes, I'm using the AutoCAD table, and the little rectangle with the circles in it, to demonstrate how you markup an AutoCAD drawing, and annotate it, again, effectively, when you're working with markups. What we're going to do first of all, as we always do, is we set up a markup layer. We go to the Home tab on the Ribbon, and, again, into the Layers panel, and you'll notice that we've got all of the other layers available, as you can see there, but we need to go into the Layer Properties, and open up the Layer Properties Manager. I'm going to click on a New Layer again here. We're going to call it MARKUP. What you might want to do this time is give it a different color. I'm going to give it…
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