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Using defined layers

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Using defined layers

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- [Voiceover] We're staying in the zero zero ground FM blocks drawing, and you can see I'm still zoomed in on room 02, the office, where I started creating that small symbol in the previous video. So we've got this little triangular symbol here to represent a person or a role, the person that owns the space, hence the occupancy. Now, what we're going to look at is using defined layers for that person or role, as I said earlier. Now, at the moment, I've drawn everything there on layer zero, it's a polyline as you can see on layer zero. But we need a defined layer for our people within our occupied office in our FM drawing. So go to the home tab on the ribbon, go to the layers panel, mine is a bit squished, remember, due to the resolution of my screen, and we're going to go to the layer properties manager, like so. Now, this gives us all of our FM layers. Now, you'll notice I've got an FM people there, which is really just a generic layer that I used for that hatch pattern in the…

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