- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now
about object and layer properties.
And we've got a new drawing for you.
It's called ground floor plan,
underscore revfive.dwg,
be aware it does look remarkably familiar
to other ground floor plans
that we've used in other chapters.
So make sure you're using ground floor plan,
rev five.dwg from the library.
Now as I said we're looking at object
and layer properties.
And what I want you to do
is get used to investigating
and interrogating your object
and layer properties
in your AutoCAD drawings.
Now in this ground floor plan,
we've got a landscaped area over here.
And this has all been placed.
We've got some tables outside
and we've got some little bike bays here as well.
Zoom in on that area
and get it to sort of fit nicely
in the center of the screen.
And what we're going to look at.
We're going to look at the properties and the layers
of some of the objects in this part of the drawing.
Now if I hover here over this table,
you can see it's on the layer, A700 MF FFE.
That's our furniture layer.
And you can see the color and the line type
they are by layer as well.
Now, if I go and click on that object,
you'll notice in the home tab
on the ribbon now in the layers panel,
it's telling me what layer that object is on.
There's my A700 MF FFE.
What it's also telling me in the properties panel here
is that the color is set by layer.
The lime way is also set by layer
and the line type is also set by layer.
So I could potentially change the color here
in the properties panel.
Let's make it a sort of purplely color like so.
Now the color has changed.
If I had escaped to deselect,
you'll notice here can you see
that it is still on the furniture layer
but it's a different color.
It's got its own individual color.
Now I could also select it again
and change the line type perhaps to a different line.
Let's go for a grid line line type
and hit escape again.
And can you see,
it's got that dash double dot thing going on.
Instead of looking like this, like this table down here
which still has the by layer settings.
Now, the other thing that I can do here,
I don't have to use the layers panel
and the properties panel.
I can select an object like so,
and I can also right Click on it.
And what'll happen there is I can go down
to the properties
on the shortcut menu
and here's all the settings in the properties palette.
So see the color there.
If I click here
and click on the down arrow
I can go back up to by layer at the top
of the list,
change the color.
And you can also see the line type there.
If I select that
and set that to buy layer again as well,
close the properties pallet,
hit escape to deselect.
You can see it's back to where we were before.
So you can see how your object
and layer properties can be updated very quickly
and very easily.
One other thing that you can do,
obviously everything is adopting
the color line weight and line type
of the current layer that this object is on.
So I could potentially change the settings of the layer.
So let's go to my layer dropdown now.
And what we're looking for is that FFE layer.
So if I just scroll down a bit
there they are just there.
700 MF FFE, 700 MH FFE.
We want the MF FFE there let's change that color
to a yellow color,
for example,
click on okay.
And can you see everything starts going yellow
everywhere in the drawing.
If I zoom out, oh look all my furniture's gone yellow.
So what I'll do there
is I'll just undo what I did previously,
which is undo the zoom.
And then undo that layer change.
Everything goes back to normal again.
So that's how we work with our object
and layer of properties in AutoCAD in your drawings.
My suggestion is though,
is to make sure
that you select the appropriate layer
from the layer drop down first.
So let's go and find our FFE layer.
There it is that's our furniture layer there.
And then I know that I'm on the right layer
before I start drafting any new furniture in the drawing.
Always get that layer setting right first time.
It's a lot easier
than having to go and investigate
and try and find out which layer
you should be using.