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So in the core chapters, in the core Skills module, we did look at layers and the importance of layers,

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how they allow you to turn things on and off, set colors, line types, that kind of thing.

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And it's important that you use those just to make your life easier.

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But also if you go into a company, they will expect things to be on a certain layer in terms of their

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CAD standards.

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So we're going to look at that now.

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We're going to add some layers into this drawing and then put individual objects on the correct layer.

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So the first thing we're going to do under this home menu, we're going to go to layer properties and

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we're going to bring up the layer box and we're going to create our layers in here.

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So to create a new layer is this this symbol on the left.

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I'm going to click that and I'm going to call this first layer external walls.

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Now, when you're typing in a name in layers, don't try not to use spaces and things.

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I'm not even sure it will let you.

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The way most people do it is to with capitalization.

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So capital letter at the start of each new word without a space.

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So capital Y, capital W external walls.

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Okay, I'm going to press return and then I'm going to press return again, which will add a new layer.

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Internal walls enter, enter windows, enter, enter doors and enter lighting.

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Okay.

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And.

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I'm going to add another one.

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I'm going to call it Hatch because we'll be adding some hatch and another one will be text and another

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one dimensions.

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Okay.

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And that will do for now.

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So we've added all those.

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We can close this down and we can look at putting these onto a layer.

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So we're going to go around and we're going to select objects and we're going to put them onto layers

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until everything is accounted for.

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We don't want anything on layer zero.

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Layer zero is the one that comes in when you.

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It's the only layer that exists in a new drawing.

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Really?

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We don't want anything on that.

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We want everything to have a layer associated with it.

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Now, a good way I use of making sure you've selected everything is to shift select all your layers

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apart from layer zero and turn them off.

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Okay.

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And close that.

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So now all only things on layer zero will show and we can see, we can see all our drawing because it's

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on layer zero.

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But as we add, as we assign it to layers, it should disappear.

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So let's try that out.

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If I click on a light, for instance, and what I can do, I can right click select similar and it will

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select all those same blocks because they're all the same block.

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I'm going to pull this down and I'm going to put them on a lighting layer and it will say, We'll get

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a warning.

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One of my objects has been moved.

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It's just giving you a warning.

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If you didn't, if that layer had just been turned off by someone else, you didn't turn it off yourself.

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You would think, oh, I've accidentally deleted my objects.

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No, we're just on a turned off layer.

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Okay.

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I'm going to do the same for Windows.

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I'm going to go to select similar and put those on windows again.

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Doors.

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Select similar and I'm going to make sure I select this one as well, which isn't a block.

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So I'm going to select those four objects and I'm going to put that onto the doors layer.

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Okay?

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And now I can just select all those, put it on internal walls.

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I think there's a bit there.

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And so the walls keep getting this come out, this warning, and then external walls.

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There we go.

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Everything's gone.

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So now everything is assigned to a layer.

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I can go back to layer properties, shift select them, turn it all on.

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And it's back.

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Now I want to set some colors to these objects, and I'm going to do that through the layers.

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So first thing I need to do is select all and make sure that the color for all the objects is set to

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bi layer.

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If you don't know what that means, you may need to rewatch the properties and the layers modules in

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the core modules, but you should pick it up just by watching this example because these are set to

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bi layer.

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That means the color of each object is set by the layer color.

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So if we go to the layer manager, for instance doors, I'm going to make the door layer blue.

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Okay, so the doors layer is set to blue.

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Now all our doors have gone blue because they're all set to color by the layer or by layer.

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Same again.

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We can do that in Windows.

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I'm going to make these green.

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Doesn't matter which shade of green.

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It doesn't even have to be green.

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You can choose whatever color you want.

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Lighting.

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I'm going to make orange.

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Okay.

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Um.

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That will do for now.

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So we've got a bit of color in our drawing and it's easy to see.

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It's a lot easier to kind of differentiate between the objects.

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Now, one thing I will say.

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If we just copy one of these lights out, you can see this block.

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It's taken its its color.

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Okay?

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Its applied the color across the whole block.

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Now, if I double click a block, if you double click a block, it will come up with this edit block

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definition and you can select your block and it kind of takes you into an edit block space.

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So it's like a mini join space just for editing that block and it will allow you to make changes to

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your block.

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So let's say I put this the individual lines inside the block were on the let's say they were on the

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windows layer.

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Okay.

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I'm going to close and it will ask us to save if we save these changes.

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There you go.

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Now.

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Because any change you make to one block will affect all the objects.

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So all these lights are now green because the lines inside were put on the windows layer.

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And that's overriding the block layer.

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So the objects inside are overriding it.

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We can solve that easy enough.

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We can go in and we can put these objects onto the correct layer.

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Okay, close that save.

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Okay, we'll close that save, and now it saves.

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All those blocks.

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So I just wanted to show you that if ever you were using a block and you change its color just by clicking

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it and it's not updating, it's because the something inside the block is overriding it.

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Okay.

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And that goes for line types as well.

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Any kind of properties like that.

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So now we've got our object on the correct layers.

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In the next chapter, we'll look at just filling in these walls with a bit of hatch to making it look

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better.