5 Easy LAYER Tips & Tricks in AUTOCAD - Draw Faster and Easier | 2 Minute Tuesday

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Brandon here back with another new video!

In this weeks 2 Minute Tuesday we take a look at a handful of my favorite and go to tips for working with Layers in AutoCAD.

Everything from how to quickly switch and move object from one layer to another, to Merging layers into one.

These Layer tips will literally save you hours of time and make life easier when drafting.

Oh and let me know what autocad tip, trick or tutorial you'd like to see in the next one down below!

Cheers and thanks for watching

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[ItsReeiiiii]

Thanks for the tips, i got my first job as an autocad operator and none of those commands are thought by my professors. Most of my time are consumed managing the layers, this is really helpful!

[rodedogad]

I've got LAYMCUR set to "AC" in acad.pgp and have a custom command in the startup suite to save a click or two in LAYMCH mapped to "AX" that defaults the target layer to current.

;quick layer change
(defun c:AX ()
(command "LAYMCH" pause "" "" "")
)

[ronaldlynch]

Excellent, facilities that I should have explored myself years ago. Thank you.

[jithinp]

Hi your show is awesome and best wishes,
Is there any way to link from one text to another text within the same sheet? My intention is to move to the next text location which is linked to the present text. I tried with hyperlink, but it is only possible to link a sheet to the respective text. Kindly help to have a solution. Thank you.

[kevinrush]

Brandon, why don't you use the industry standard AIA Layers? Also, you should take a look at the UDS (Uniform Drawing System) standards.

[evanharriman]

Great video! I learned some great stuff about layers. Some constructive criticism- I found the embedded video of you in the corner very distracting but that’s just my opinion :-)

[kevinrush]

Adam Roder,
I see you are setting up an alias in the pgp file to "make the object's layer current" command "LAYMCUR" = "AC" and the "match" layer alias, in the pgp file set to "AX".

What does the rest of your suggestion do? Please explain further.

[akinsolabamidele]

How can I get communicate with you for more training on autocad pls

[SUL-KSA]

match prop. vs match layer, are they different?

[sumitmondal]

Hello Sir, please advise if there is any tricks available for attaching an attribute to a group of polylines in AutoCAD 2021??

[kevinrush]

Adam Roder: What does your changes do? Please explain better.

[irregular]

How to change a couple of drawing from this layer to another layer