Understanding design layers

- [Instructor] Manual drafting is primarily done…on individual sheets of transparent or translucent paper.…Vectorworks has a similar system called layers.…There are two kinds of layers,…one for design,…and the other for presentation sheets.…Let's take a look at the design layers.…In the info bar,…a little bit left of center here,…we have a pull-down,…that when we hover over it says the active layer,…so this is the active layer pull-down.…So here we can click,…and see what layer we have available,…and which one is active.…

So right now, we have design layer 1 active,…let's see what items are in design layer 1.…So we hover over the different elements here,…we have a table, and the different chairs.…Let's select one of these chairs.…In the object info palette,…on the right side of the screen,…the lower right side of the screen,…we have a layer pull-down…and it shows design layer 1.…So this is the layer that the selected object is in,…and I'm going to do that for the tabletop,…it says the same thing.…

We have different info,…