Working with AutoCAD centerlines and adjusting their settings

- [Instructor] Welcome to another AutoCAD…tip and trick for the day.…What we're going to look at now…is a really nice new feature…in the later versions of AutoCAD…that involves annotation and center lines,…placing center marks and center lines…in your AutoCAD drawings.…We've got a new drawing for you.…It's centerlines.dwg and you can see we've got a circle…and a rectangle and that's it.…If you go into your layers panel…on the home tab on the ribbon,…and go to layer properties,…you'll see there in the layer properties manager…that we do have some layers.…

We've got the objects layer…that the circle and the rectangle are drawn on.…We've also got a center lines layer,…which is the current drafting layer.…It's using a color 10 and a line type of center.…Remember that for when we come back to the center lines…in a moment.…Close your layer properties manager…and make sure that center lines…is the current drafting layer.…Go to the annotate tab now on the ribbon.…You'll see there's a center lines panel…and you can place a center mark or a center line.…