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Setting filtering and display options

Setting filtering and display options - DraftSight Tutorial

From the course: DraftSight Essential Training

Setting filtering and display options

- [Narrator] Once again, we're staying in our 15 underscore layers .dwg file. We're going to have a look now at filtering our layers in the layer manager. So jump to the layers panel in the home tab on the ribbon and click on your layer manager icon. Now you'll see you've got various layers available to you in the drawing. And they're controlled by these filters here. So then you see there's all layers and there's all used layers. So at the moment it's now only showing me the layers that are currently used in the drawing. Because some drawings you may have layers that you're not using. So if I go back to the all setting, that'll show all of the layers in the DraftSight drawing. Now you'll notice that I've got the display in use status box clicked, and you'll see that you've got layers with the gray box, and layers with the little yellow box next to them. Now these little icons, they look like little boxes. They're not, they're meant to represent sheets of paper stacked on top of each…

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