- [Tutor] We're staying in our GND Floor Plan_REV5 drawing.
And what we're going to take a look at now
is some of the tools available
on the Layers panel on the ribbon panel.
So we're in the Home tab on the ribbon,
and here's our Layers panel here.
What I'm going to do, I'm just going to expand it out as well.
So click on the flyout
and click on the little pin like so,
and that'll pin it open.
You can see we've got various tools there
including a thing that says "Unsaved Layer State".
We'll talk about that in a minute.
I want to show you these tools up here first.
Now there's some really lovely tools available
in the AutoCAD Layers panel.
So for example, if I click on Make Current, like so,
and come in to the drawing area,
it says "select the object whose layer will become current".
Now my bike bays are down here,
click on that object and you'll see
that bike bays is now the current drafting layer.
So again, if I click on make current again,
and select this one here,
you can see there,
click there.
And you'll notice that the site layer
is now the current layer, for example.
Now what I can also do is I can match a layer.
So if I click on Match Layer now
and come into the drawing area, it says "select objects".
So what I might do here
is I might select this table here
like so,
and then press Enter to confirm it
then it says "select the object on the destination layer".
So I'll select the bike bay there,
like so,
and can you see, it converted that to the bike bay layer.
So what I can do there is obviously change things quickly
and easily to the layer I want them to be on.
I don't need to know the layer name, either,
which is quite useful.
So if I do that Match Layer again,
and I select this object here,
and press Enter to confirm,
and then select this object here,
it puts it back on the appropriate layer,
as you can see.
So that Match Layer is really useful.
Other tools that you've got in the Layer panel are up here,
which I love,
are things like turning layers on and off.
So if I click on Off there,
I can turn a layer off.
So select an object on the layer to be turned off.
So if I go to bike bays here and click there,
can you see the bike bays disappear.
Press Enter to confirm,
that layer is now off.
So if I go to the layer dropdown
and look for my bike bays,
can you see bike bays are off?
The light bulb is blue.
Click on the blue light bulb to turn them on again,
they come back on again in the drawing.
Hit Esc to close the layer dropdown.
I can also do the same with freezing and thawing here.
So I can freeze a layer.
So if I go to Freeze,
and I select my bike bays again here, like so,
they freeze off of the drawing,
press Enter to confirm,
if I now go to the layer dropdown again
you'll notice that my bike bays layer is now frozen,
click on the snowflake,
turns back to a sun symbol,
layers are now back in the drawing.
So if I hit Esc to lose the layer drop down again.
So there's some really useful functionality
in that layers panel.
I'll leave it up to you to investigate how they all work
and how to change things in your AutoCAD drawings.
But Layers are a valuable,
fundamental tool in your AutoCAD drawings.
Use them to your advantage.