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So we can select that in the layer command by going to line type dashed.

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And you'll see all our internal walls are now dashed.

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So what we've done, we've selected that particular property, which is line type.

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We've selected it in the layer manager, which means every line on that layer.

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Okay, we'll change as long as as long as the object itself is set to by a layer, which means it takes

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a line.

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Type by the layer.

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If you can.

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I think we've got one here.

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So maybe for whatever reason, this line, for instance, these two lines, you didn't want these dashed,

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you wanted them continuous.

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You can select those.

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Individually to be something else.

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Okay, So you do have that option of not having it by layer, but generally the way you want to work

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is just having it by layer.

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And then controlling things in the layer command.

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And we can put that back to continuous and we can do that so easily because we're controlling it by

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layers, everything becomes easier.

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Maybe the color.

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Okay.

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Well, actually, internal walls.

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I don't want them white.

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I want them red.

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I want all the internal walls to be shown red.

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Well, we can just click on under our layer manager.

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We can go to color.

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Read.

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Okay.

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And they will change.

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This one hasn't changed because its color is set.

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Under this properties panel.

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If we change it to be by layer so it takes its color from the layer manager, then it will change and

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that gives you a lot of control over your drawing because it allows you to quickly change objects and

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turn objects on and off.

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And this is why in the workplace, when you create, you work with large layouts, with lots of things

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on, it becomes more important because you really would want to be able to differentiate between objects

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that are similar and turn objects on and off.

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Later on you'll look at layer control and viewports.

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That's too complex to look at now, but that is where layouts will come into their own.

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It allows you to do so much with your drawing.

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So do get used to using layers.

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Do get even if it's just general, you can name them.

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When you're drawing for yourself, you can name them what you want and the easy way is to name them

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what they are.

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So doors, external walls, hatch, etcetera.

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In the workplace, you tend to find projects have their own layering system.

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So there can be codes.

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There's a lot of different ways of doing it.

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Generally, it will be code numbers for different items that reference back to documents.

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There's a few ways, but you'll be given that in the workplace you'll be given a kind of layer table

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and it will say, walls go on this layer, doors go on this layer.

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Okay, so.

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That's how you would set that up.

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So let's look now at creating a layer.

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And I'm going to do that.

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I'm going to just draw a table.

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And it's going to be a very basic table.

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It's just going to be a rectangle.

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So that's a table and maybe that's a chair.

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I know, I know.

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But just pretend.

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So we want to create a couple layers.

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One for we could create one for furniture.

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And put them both on that.

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Or we could create separate ones for tables and chairs.

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The way you would do that, it depends on what you're going going to be doing going forward.

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Some people will detail layers down to individual items.

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I've seen drawings before where a tree.

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It add a layer for the branches and a layer for the leaves.

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Why you would need that?

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I do not know.

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Maybe in autumn you'd want to turn them off.

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But it all depends on what you see yourself doing with that drawing in the future.

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If you don't think there's any reason you would need to show tables and not chairs or any reason you

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would want to show chairs and not tables, then just create a furniture layout.

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If the tables are being done by one contractor and the chairs by another supplier, maybe you would

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want to differentiate them.

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In that case, you would have a different layout, a layer for tables and chairs.

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It doesn't really matter at the end of the day.

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It's up to you.

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Um, and really, it depends on whether you would want different colors or different line types or the

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ability to turn one off and not the other.

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So we're going to do it as an example.

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We're going to create two layers and we can create a new layer in this layer properties box.

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We click this here, which is new layer, okay?

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And that gives us a new line on our layer table and it's asking you to type something in the default

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is layer one.

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The next default would be layer two and so on.

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So I'm going to call this chairs press enter.

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We now have a layer called chairs, but if I turn it on and off, nothing's going to happen because

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we haven't actually put anything on it yet.

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I'm going to create another layer and I'm going to call that tables.

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Again.

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Nothing's happened yet.

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So we now actually.

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So we now have to put the objects on the correct layer.

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And to do that, it's simple.

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We just click it.

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So when you click an object under layers, it will say.

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The that objects on and the layer at the moment is under the title block layer.

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Why is it under the title block layer?

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Well, you always need to have one layer selected as the current layer.

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If I draw a line that has to be on one layer and you'll see under the layer manager, we have a green

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tick against title block.

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So that means that's telling us title block is the current layer.

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We can also see it's the current layer because it's it's selected here.

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So if I was to select if I wanted zero as the current layer, I could double click it in layer Manager.

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Or I could change it here.

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If I wanted chairs to be the current layer, I could select chairs there.

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So now with this selected, if I draw a rectangle now that is on the chairs layer, I can select the

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object and it's on the chairs layer.

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Okay, but what about changing it?

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Well, all I need to do is select the object.

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And I can use this pull down menu and I can say, okay, put that on the chairs layer.

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And that is on a layer now called chairs.

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And I'll do the same with this one.

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It's going to go on the tables layer.

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Okay, so we have chairs and we have tables.

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And if I was to now turn tables off, that will disappear.

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Same with chairs.

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Aha.

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And now we get a message.

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And this message is saying it's basically asking us, do you want to turn the current layer off?

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Be very careful with turning off the layer that is set to current.

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And I'll demonstrate why.

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If we turn this current layer off.

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So Chaz's current and it's turned off and I now start drawing a line.

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Nothing happens.

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Oh, I'm going to do it again.

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Nothing happens.

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Oh, AutoCAD.

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Is it broken?

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Everything I'm drawing is not there.

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Well, you've probably guessed what's happened.

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And if I turn chairs on now, you'll see all these lines I drew appear.

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So that's a danger of having your current layer turned off.

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Really?

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You shouldn't ever have a current layer turned off.

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The best thing to do, certainly in the beginning, is leave zero as your current layer and then you

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know, anything you draw.

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Anything new that you create is on layer zero.

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Okay.

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And that tells you that anything that hasn't been given a layer yet is on layer zero.

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So supposing I drew a bookcase or another table.

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Okay, so let's suppose I drew another table, but I forgot to put that on a layer.

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If I was to turn all these off, which we can do, you can select the top one.

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And just like in other software you can use, and just like in other software, you can use control

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to select individual ones.

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Or you can use shift select to select the whole list.

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So if I select all those and turn them off.

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Everything's gone except this line.

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And because zero is the only thing turned on, I know that this hasn't been assigned, so that's kind

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of a quick way of making sure everything you've got is assigned.

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I can put that on tables and it disappears.

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Okay.

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And it will just give me a warning that it's been moved to a frozen layer.

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If I now turn those on, everything reappears.

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So we've created a new layer.

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So we've created our two new layers.

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We've got tables and we've got chairs.

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But I want those to be a certain color so I can set that in my layer manager by clicking the color here.

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Let's make chairs.

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Purple, maybe.

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Okay.

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And let's make tables.

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Let's make them.

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This kind of pink.

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Now you'll see none of these have actually changed, even though we've changed the layer.

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This is on table.

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A table layer.

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Okay.

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On the table is set to color 11, but it's not.

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The reason is it's not set to.

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It's color is set to by a block.

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Forget about what by block means because we haven't looked at blocks.

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But what you want it to be.

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Set by layer, which basically tells it the color is controlled by the layer.

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You could give it a color of its own, but you lose that control of being able to change it all, change

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all your tables in one go.

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So where possible, things really should be set to by layer.

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Okay.

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And now you've got them and you can turn the tables off and you can turn the chairs off.