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In the Layers Properties dialog box, click New Property Filter. Name the new filter with the xref name and a short description, such as: 11950-06 Survey (Easements).
I find AutoCAD's New Layer Notification tool extremely useful. Many of our projects involve multiple users in separate office locations, and communication regarding xref edits sometimes is not ... Read more
Frequent contributor Michael Partenheimer notes that the National CAD Standard (NCS) no longer associates a color to a plot thickness. He has submitted three separate but related L... Read more
Tip#: 4446
Author: Michael Partenheimer
Rename File To: LayerColorUtilities/,LayerColorUtilities/Color2lineweight.lsp,LayerColorUtilities/Lineweight2Color.lsp,LayerColorUtilities/NCSpstyle2lineweight.lsp,LayerColorUtilities/NCSv5.stb
Jim Himes shares two similar routines with us this month: The first turns off all frozen layers in AutoCAD, and the second one freezes any layers that are turned off. This might so... Read more
You can create group filters in the Layer Manager when you have a lot of layers in your drawing. Create a group filter, make it the current group filter (it will be highlighted), and put only the l... Read more
Raymond Rizkillah's latest routine includes a set of macros to dynamically control layer visibility in an AutoCAD drawing with multiple xrefs, without involving the Layer Prope... Read more
Sometimes when you create a detail view and then later move the base view that the detail is associated with, you find that your detail view is not where you expected it to be. Here is a way to cor... Read more
Reference drawing layers can be modified in the parent drawing and changes to color, linetype, and other properties are maintained as long as the system variable Visretain is set to 1. If you want ... Read more