Organizing Your Work
If your application is not architecture, you may want to experiment with creating other types of symbols. You might also start thinking about a layering system that suits your particular needs. Open a new file called My temp. In it, create layers numbered 1 through 8...
Organizing Your Work
The Insert and the Layer Properties Manager dialog boxes let you view the blocks and layers available in your drawing, by listing tli.emin a window. The Layer Properties Manager dialog box also includes information on the status oflayers. However, you may forget the...
Organizing Your Work
Zoom in to a small part of the line, and you’ll see that the line is indeed as you specified. Since you are working at.a scale of 1″=1′, you must adjust the scale of your line types accordingly. This, too, is accomplished in the Layer Properties...
Organizing Your Work
You will often want to use different line types to show hidden lines, center lines, fence lines, or other noncontinuous lines. You can set a layer to have not only a color assignment but also a line-type assignment. AutoCAD comes with several line types, as shown in...
Organizing Your Work
Yo~ may h’ave noticed the Freeze and’ Thaw buttons in the Layer Properties Manager dialog box. These options are similar to the On and Off buttons-however, Freeze not only makes layers invisible, it also tells Au’toCAD to ignore the contents of those...
Organizing Your Work
Layer 0 has special Importance to blocks. When objects assigned :0 Layer 0 are used as parts of a block, those objects take on the characteristics of the layer on which the block IS Inserted. On the other hand, if those objects are on if layer other than Layer 0, they...
