- Once again, we're staying
in our ground floor plan rev five DWG file.
And I just want to take you through
very very briefly through
the layer state's setting available to you,
in your AutoCAD drawings.
Now I'm just going to make some simple changes
to an AutoCAD drawing.
But what I want to do is remember the state
of the layers that I was working on,
when I first started making those changes.
That's where layer states come in.
So you can save different layer states in a drawing
which means it'll remember what states the layers were in
before you started making the changes.
Really useful.
So if you go to where it says, unsave layer state here
and click on the down arrow
you've got manage layer state,
click there first
and that will open up your layer state manager.
So I'm going to click on new.
And my new layer state name will be existing
which is my existing layer state.
So basically the description will be layers were
as they were at the start.
Now that might sound really weird.
So layers were as they were at the start.
Well, yeah, that's the existing layer state.
So I'm going to click on, okay.
That goes into my lay state manager.
Now I don't need to restore that.
I'm just going to close the layer state's manager.
What I'm going to do now is make some changes
to the layers here, my bike base layer
and also this layer here, which is the state layer.
So the site layer is the current layer anyway.
So I click on the layer, drop down
and I'm going to change the color of my sight layer.
Like, so I'm going to make it a bright red, like so
what I'm also going to do,
is go to my bike bays layer as well.
There it is there I'm going to make
that the sign red let's make that
that bright red there, like so
notice there red now as well.
And we've also got this layer here
which is the I700 M F F E layer.
So let's go down and find that as well.
So let's find that there it is there.
So let's make that the same color red as well.
So all I'm doing is changing the color
of those three layers.
You see everything looks a bit weird and wonderful now.
I'm now going to go to here to my unsaved layer state
and go to manage layer state again.
Notice that we've got a no there
if I expand that along, same as the DWG.
No, it's not at the moment.
I'm going to click new,
and I'm going to call it this new layer state name
is going to be simply called red
and I'm going to put layers changed to red and it was color 10.
So I'll pop that in there as well.
Click on okay.
We've now got a red layer state, as you can see.
Yes, it is the same as the drawing.
So what I can do now is I can close my lay state manager
and you'll notice I've got an existing and a red.
So if I hover over those, can you see the change.
If I go back to existing, that's what it was before.
And then if I go for my red layer state
the ones that are changed, go to red, isn't that great.
So I can now highlight objects
in my drawing quickly and easily in the red,
to say these are all the elements
that might be changing in the drawing,
and I can use my red last state.
And then when I want to go back
to the last state that I was using
I just sort like existing job done quick and easy.
That's how you can utilize those layer states
in your layer states manager.
And they're a great way of highlighting phases
of a particular project in your AutoCAD drawings.
So each layer state could represent a phase in the drawing
where things are changing
and you can set them all up to display in red
like I just showed you.