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Managing layer properties - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: AutoCAD Certified Professional
Managing layer properties
- [Narrator] We're in a new drawing now, and it's called organizing underscore layer props dot dwg. As usual, you can download it from the website as an exercise file to use it to follow along with this particular video. Now what we're going to look at this time is changing and organizing the properties of our objects via layers only. So, we're going to open up the layer properties manager. That's in the layers panel here in the home tab on the ribbon. Now what I'm going to do here is I'm just going to drag this across a little, and then what I'll do as well is close it first, let's be sensible here. I'll zoom out a tiny bit and pan that across because I want you to be able to see all of the layer properties as they change. Now the benefit you've got in the layer properties manager, where you're editing the properties of the layers, is they're all in a list and it's all tabulated like so. Now I might want to change the color of the layers for the center lines and the dimensions, but…
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