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Re: defpoint layer. That means anything you place on that layer, like construction lines, will be visible onscreen when your file is used as a reference file elsewhere. While they may not plot they are still cluttering up the screen and there is no way to turn them off without freezing the entire reference file.
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AutoCAD is a world leader in computer-aided design (CAD), and users around the world use this powerful software to communicate their design intent in many different disciplines. In this course, Shaun Bryant takes you through how to work with AutoCAD to create construction drawings that accurately communicate your design intent. Shaun explains how to use the tools and features within AutoCAD to develop drawings that clearly express the sizes of the objects you want to build. He covers how to develop a title block, set up attributes, set up layers to industry standards, develop plans and elevations, set up viewports, and more.Skills covered in this course
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- [Instructor] We're staying in our Using Layer Standards.dwg file, and you can see I've left it in the same state as it was in the previous video, I've still got those viewports there, the title block, and so on. Now, we're looking at our layers, and the layers that we should be using in our construction drawings in AutoCAD. Now, we talked about in the previous video, layers that should not plot. So, for example, our viewports layer, we can set that in the Layer Properties Manager not to plot. Now, the good thing is there is one particular layer in AutoCAD that automatically knows that it should not plot. When you're annotating a drawing such as adding dimensions to a drawing you use what I called origin points, so those are the two points that you click on for example to create a linear dimension and you're measuring between those two points. Those two points are known as defpoints or definition points. Now, let's have a look at the Layer Proprieties Manager again. So, jump into…Practice while you learn with exercise files
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AutoCAD is a world leader in computer-aided design (CAD), and users around the world use this powerful software to communicate their design intent in many different disciplines. In this course, Shaun Bryant takes you through how to work with AutoCAD to create construction drawings that accurately communicate your design intent. Shaun explains how to use the tools and features within AutoCAD to develop drawings that clearly express the sizes of the objects you want to build. He covers how to develop a title block, set up attributes, set up layers to industry standards, develop plans and elevations, set up viewports, and more.Skills covered in this course
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Welcome
- [Instructor] We're staying in our Using Layer Standards.dwg file, and you can see I've left it in the same state as it was in the previous video, I've still got those viewports there, the title block, and so on. Now, we're looking at our layers, and the layers that we should be using in our construction drawings in AutoCAD. Now, we talked about in the previous video, layers that should not plot. So, for example, our viewports layer, we can set that in the Layer Properties Manager not to plot. Now, the good thing is there is one particular layer in AutoCAD that automatically knows that it should not plot. When you're annotating a drawing such as adding dimensions to a drawing you use what I called origin points, so those are the two points that you click on for example to create a linear dimension and you're measuring between those two points. Those two points are known as defpoints or definition points. Now, let's have a look at the Layer Proprieties Manager again. So, jump into…Practice while you learn with exercise files
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