Freeze/Thaw, On/Off And Lock
you can make drawing layers invisible either by turning them off or by freezing them we’ve briefly mentioned them in the last few sections but I want to take a...
The Layer Manager
the layer manager in AutoCAD is a pallet and it’s the main format for creating and maintaining your drawings layers here you can change the state of a layer create...
Layer Properties
AutoCAD uses something called layers they’re used to group information in a drawing by function and to also enforce line type color and other standards like that layers are the...
Chapter Project
this chapter gave us the tools we need to look at the data in our files let’s start by opening up the ice rink example file here for chapter 7...
Undo – The Most Important Command
have you ever made a mistake don’t worry you will that’s where the undo command comes in this command is found in most computer programs and is one of my...
Purging Unused Items
AutoCAD drawings get dirty what I mean is that they get bloated with data and styles that aren’t being used anymore they may not have ever been used in fact...