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Creating new layers and working with the layer dropdown menu in AutoCAD

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Creating new layers and working with the layer dropdown menu in AutoCAD

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our GroundFloorPlanRev5.dwg file. And this time we're going to take a look at how we can create new layers in our AutoCAD drawings and also work with those layers using the layer properties manager, and also the layer dropdown. Now, I've zoomed to the extent of the visible drawn objects. That's purely for clarity. It's a good habit to get into when you're not working on your drawing, just zoom extent so you can see everything that's going on. Now what we are going to do, we're going to create a new layer. Now we're going to go to the home tab on the ribbon. Into layer properties here on the layers panel, and that opens up our layer properties manager. Now this is our all encompassing layer properties, sort of font of all knowledge, if you see what I mean. And as you can see, you've got all your layer names, whether they're on or off, frozen or thawed, locked plot, color line type et cetera. And you can go and select any layer, and you can look at all…

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