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Setting up a table layer

Setting up a table layer - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Setting up a table layer

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- [Narrator] We're now starting a new chapter in our annotating effectively in AutoCAD course. And we're going to be looking at setting up an AutoCAD table. Now, you see the name of the drawing at the top of the screen. It's very similar to the previous chapter, but what I've done is I've saved it and renamed it as 07_Tables.dwg And as usual, you can download that accordingly to follow along with the video. So, in this first video all we're going to do is set up the new table's layer. Now, I cannot stress enough when you're annotating in AutoCAD, everything new that you bring into your drawing, you make sure that you create a new layer for it. So, things like tables, they would have a layer. Texts would have a layer. Dimensions would have a layer and so on, like we've done in the previous chapters. So, we're adding a new feature, a new object to our drawing and it's going to be an AutoCAD table. So, we go to the home tab on the ribbon, layers panel as usual, layer properties manager…

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