User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Taking the AutoCAD Tour
- Chapter 2: Creating Basic Drawings
- Chapter 3: Manipulating Objects
- Lesson: Selecting Objects in the Drawing
- Lesson: Changing an Object's Position
- Lesson: Creating New Objects from Existing Objects
- Lesson: Changing the Angle of an Object's Position
- Lesson: Creating a Mirror Image of Existing Objects
- Lesson: Creating Object Patterns
- Lesson: Changing an Object's Size
- Challenge Exercise: Grips
- Challenge Exercise: Architectural
- Challenge Exercise: Mechanical
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 4: Drawing Organization and Inquiry Commands
- Chapter 5: Altering Objects
- Lesson: Trimming and Extending Objects to Defined Boundaries
- Lesson: Creating Parallel and Offset Geometry
- Lesson: Joining Objects
- Lesson: Breaking an Object into Two Objects
- Lesson: Applying a Radius Corner to Two Objects
- Lesson: Creating an Angled Corner Between Two Objects
- Lesson: Changing Part of an Object's Shape
- Challenge Exercise: Architectural
- Challenge Exercise: Mechanical
- Chapter Summary
288 ■ Chapter 4: Drawing Organization and Inquiry Commands
Exercise: Change Object Properties
In this exercise, you use the Layers and Properties
toolbars to change the layer, linetype, and lineweight
of selected objects.
The completed exercise
Completing the Exercise
To complete the exercise, follow the
steps in this book or in the onscreen
exercise. In the onscreen list of
chapters and exercises, click Chapter
4: Drawing Organization and Inquiry
Commands. Click Exercise: Change
Object Properties.
1.
Open I_Change-Properties.dwg.
2.
To change the linetype of the overhead doors
to ByLayer:
■ Select the overhead doors indicated by the
arrows.
■ On the Home tab, click Properties panel >
Linetype.
■ Select ByLayer. Press ESC to clear your
selection set.
3.
To move some of the machine labels to
another layer:
■ With the command line blank, select the
text for machine numbers 47 through 54.
■ On the Home tab, click Layers panel >
Layer.
■ Select the machine labels layer to move
the numbers to this layer.
■ Press ESC to clear your selection set.