Layer States & Layer Filters

Подписаться 2,5 тыс.

Просмотров 5 тыс.

50% 1

I'll 1) Quickly go over Layer Filters, then 2) Discuss Layer States as in-depth as I can in less than 20 minutes.
Layer States are wonderful and horrible at the same time. To really explain the in's and out's, and all the advantages, pitfalls, and whatever else, I'd probably need to record myself drafting for an hour. I highly recommend asking any questions in the comments below, and even better yet, creating your own file to test these features out for yourself.

Опубликовано:

8 фев 2023

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 13

@geoterminus6040 27 дней назад

BTW, the layer state manager happen to have two shortcut keys. One is LAS and hit enter the other one is LMAN and hit enter. Thanks for the video !

@js-lr1tz 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the video, very clear explanation and easy to follow. Now I don't have to create multiple drawing for different purposes and can do it all in 1 drawing, made my workflow alot easier!

@MrJGRalston Год назад

Good video learnt something new the other day in the layerwalk command if you right click you can save a state directly from there

@randomCADstuff Год назад

I never heard of layerwalk to be honest, I'll have to give it a try. Thanks!!

@JayMo862 3 месяца назад

Thank you!

@mery84able 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much fot this video, this is so helpfull🎉

@tomvos5594 7 месяцев назад

A really good video! The only one who goes into depth of the Layer States clearly, and also mentions the disadvantages/problems of the tool and when they apply. Thank you! But I've got a question in regards to Layer States (LS); When I create a new LS when I'm in paperspace, the "Space"-colom states "Layout", and in modelspace it states "Model". But what are the limitations and advantages of creating LS with one or the other? I ask this because I noticed that you used the "Grey-out" LS, which is a modelspace LS, to set the viewport LS in paperspace. And with the "Red Title Block" LS, which is a Layout LS, it's not clear to me why I'd bother with the LS being Model or Layout.

@randomCADstuff 7 месяцев назад

I had to play around with that after reading your comment. And unfortunately I can't come up with a cover-all-cases answer. To make things more complicated, I'm seeing some strange behavior when I create the Layer State in PSPACE (I'm using AutoCAD 2024). It's not allowing me to unfreeze layers for some reason... the fix for that is just to delete the delinquent layer state and re-create it. I also wasn't able to peg down the exact behavior of the "Layout" Layer State when used in MSPACE and vice-versa. My recommendation would be to: Only use a layer state in the space which it was created. With the exception to that being using a layer state when you have a viewport activated. For that I just use one I created in model space. I should try and find some time to figure this out in the future.

@tomvos5594 7 месяцев назад

@@randomCADstuffI did find out that, depending on the view you're in (model-, paper-space, or viewport), certain "Layer properties to restore " get greyed-out. This doesn't seem to be linked to the "Space" column. I'm using 2022, but will soon switch to 2024. But I'm having trouble with the transparency-property with hatches. Because when I use a LS in any view, the transparency of hatches changes in some views. So change it in one VP, it also changes in another VP, but not all. It seems to be random for me, but I'm assuming that I'm doing something wrong. This seems to be the only property to do this. Maybe you know what could be the problem? Or do you encounter the same problem in some cases?

@randomCADstuff 7 месяцев назад

I think you've found a bug. I have AutoCAD 2024 I can reproduce what you describe. But if I use different properties (color for example) it behaves as expected. I haven't checked everything yet.@@tomvos5594

@randomCADstuff 7 месяцев назад

At first I thought that maybe it changes the "global" transparency instead of the "VP Transparency", unfortunately it doesn't. It seems that vpTransparency is in fact global. $2,000 per year you'd think they have enough revenue to tidy these things up lol ;-).@@tomvos5594