- Create a new drawing and open the Design Center, load the drawings from which we are going to copy the layer in the Design Center, unfold the file to show the layer option, as shown in the following picture,
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* layer 0
Layer 0 is the default layer of every drawing, which could not be deleted. There are some special properties of layer 0. Please see another blog post to review the differences between layer 0 and other layers.
Continue reading “Basics about CAD layers tutorial 2”CAD drawings range from the simplest with a few hundred geometric objects to the most complex ones with millions of geometric objects. To better control the display and plot of geometric objects, CAD have introduced the concept of layer. This way, CAD users can put different geometric objects on different layers and control the color, linetype, lineweight and other properties by customizing the layer properties. The properties of some CAD objects are set bylayer by default and putting those objects on the specific layers will save you time and there is no need to customize them respectively.
Continue reading “Basics about CAD layers”In lower version of CAD, when graphics objects cover each other, we’ll need to set sequence for them and make text, dimension and some graphics objects show on top and make other objects show in the bottom. Higher version of CAD provides transparency settings, so we can add transparency to graphics objects when they cover each other and we can see through the intersection part. As shown in the following picture.
Continue reading “How to add transparency to graphics objects?”Layer is an important concept in CAD and to better understand layer and the related concepts such as current layer, please refer to the post basics about layer. The CAD program has not only current layer, but also current color, current linetype, current text style, current dimension style, current table style, etc. This post is going to explore more about Current in CAD. By default, newly-created graphics use the current format or style, for example, newly-created graphics will be put on the current layer, newly-created text will use the current text style and newly-created dimension will use the current dimension style.
Continue reading “What is Current Layer and Current Style in CAD and how to switch between them?”We all know that layer 0 is the default CAD layer, but what’s the difference between layer 0 and other layers?
Continue reading “What’s the difference between Layer 0 and other layers?”Abstract: We have learned some basics about Layer in my previous post and learned how to change the color, linetype, and lineweight. Here comes the question: If we change the color of layer, will the color of objects on the layer change accordingly? Let’s explore the following experiment.
Continue reading “Change object properties with Layer Properties Manager”What we can do with Layer
With Layer, we can organize complex objects or graphics in good order. We can change the color, linetype, lineweight, and some other properties. We can put some objects with similar properties on the same layer, for example, we can put text, dimension on a separate layer. Layer is a useful tool for managing objects effectively.
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