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Using the layer tools

Using the layer tools

We're staying in our ground floor plan rev5.dwg file and I want to take you through some of the fantastic tools that are available on the layers panel on the ribbon. So make sure you're in the home tab on the ribbon, there's the layers panel, click on the little fly out there and just pin it open. Now you'll notice there's some tools here talking about layer states, we'll cover those later. I want to cover some of these fantastic tools up here, there's some really clever stuff going on. So for example you'll see we're on the landscaping layer right now. If I click on make current here and select an object on a particular layer, if I click here on the bike bays now it doesn't have to be a layer that I know either. It can be a third-party drawing that I've received and I'm working on it. I just click on that line there and bike bays becomes the current drafting layer. Very quick and easy. The one underneath it is even more clever. I love Match Layer. I click on Match Layer and I select…

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