You've created the flrpln drawing “ a furniture location plan for your office. Your boss wants to review your work, and you want to give him a step-by-step rundown of what you have done.
Be sure you're still in the flrpln.dwg file in the C:\Steps\Lesson06 folder. If not, open it now.
Follow these steps.
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| 1. Pick the down arrow next to the Layer Control box. Set layer as current. (Remember that you can't freeze the current layer.) | |
| 2. Pick the down arrow next to the Layer Control box again. Freeze the following layers: FURNITURE , HIDDEN , LANDSCAPING , SUBWALLS , and TEXT . To do this, pick on the image of the sun next to each. Notice that the images become snowflakes indicating that the layers are frozen. Pick anywhere on the screen to close the control box. Your drawing looks like Figure 6.4.1.2a. | |
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| 3. Tell your boss that this is the floor plan of the office area with which you have been working. Explain that you began by laying out the partitions for as many cubicles as possible. Thaw the SUBWALLS layer “ pick the down arrow next to the Layer Control box again, and pick on the snowflake next to the SUBWALLS layer. Your drawing will look like Figure 6.4.1.3a. | |
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| 4. Next, you placed the furniture within the cubicles and the break area. Thaw the FURNITURE and HIDDEN layers “ pick the down arrow next to the Layer Control box again, and then pick on the snowflakes next to these layers. Your drawing will look like Figure 6.4.1.4a. | |
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5. Now you can razzle- dazzle the boss by thawing the remaining layers to reveal the final drawing, including plants and text. Your drawing will look like it did in Figure 6.2.1.9. |
Review this section several times, if you wish. You'll find that getting comfortable with layers is fundamental in the world of AutoCAD. Then go on to see how to adjust for the inevitable outcry “ "Oh, no! I drew all that on the wrong layer!!!"