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The Properties panel - DraftSight Tutorial
From the course: DraftSight Essential Training
The Properties panel
- [Instructor] We're starting another chapter now in our DraftSight Essentials course. What we're going to be looking at is using properties in our DraftSight drawings. Surprise, surprise, the new drawing is called 07_UsingProperties.dwg. You can see the name of it at the top of the screen. As we've done in all of the previous chapters, download the file from the website and use it to follow along with the videos in this particular chapter. In this particular video, what we're going to look at first of all is the Properties panel. That's in the Home tab on the ribbon. It's up here. It's one of the larger panels in DraftSight. It's right here. Now there's a lot of settings in the Properties panel that you can use. For example, if I hover over this one, you've got LineColor. You've also got your LineStyle. You've also got your LineWeight. Over here, we've got our Print Style. Here, we can set our Transparency, ByLayer or ByBlock or ByAlpha. The Transparency settings are controlled by…
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Contents
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The Classic interface workspace2m 34s
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Dropdown menu1m 54s
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Context menu6m 23s
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Keyboard shortcuts4m 31s
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Standard toolbar3m 6s
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Graphics area4m 35s
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View tiles3m 13s
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Graphics cursor and crosshairs6m
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Cartesian coordinates and the origin7m 44s
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Model tab and Sheet tab6m 3s
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Command window4m 24s
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Status bar4m 32s
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Palettes4m 22s
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The Drafting and Annotation workspace1m 54s
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Workspace switching1m 10s
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Main menu2m 44s
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Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)2m 29s
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The ribbon3m 10s
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The Home tab4m 36s
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The Insert tab3m 56s
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The Annotate tab2m 39s
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The Sheet tab3m 40s
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The Manage tab4m
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The View tab3m 19s
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The Home palette2m 46s
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The Properties palette3m 13s
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Drawing tabs2m 32s
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Layer 0, the default layer3m 12s
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Layer properties3m 49s
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Creating new layers2m 41s
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Changing the active layer3m 35s
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Renaming a layer1m 59s
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Controlling the layer behaviour5m 38s
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Setting the LineColor2m 33s
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Setting the layer LineStyle3m 48s
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Setting the layer LineWeight3m 10s
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Setting PrintStyle2m 35s
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Setting Description2m 39s
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Setting filtering and display options3m 41s
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Creating new entity layers3m 51s
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Drawing a CIRCLE3m 23s
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Drawing a Hexagon4m 11s
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Using the COPY command3m 27s
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Modifying the circle properties3m 33s
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Drawing parallel and horizontal lines3m 43s
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Using the TRIM and EXTEND commands3m 46s
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Using the FILLET command4m 13s
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Using the MIRROR command3m 2s
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Using the ROTATE command3m 32s
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