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Scale Linetypes in Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Align Views in Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Rotate Views in Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Reuse Layouts and Layout Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Work with Layouts in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Quick Start for Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Understand the Project Manager Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Create and Manage a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Create a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Create and Modify Layouts in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Work with Views on Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Organize a Project with Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Include Information with Projects, Groups, Layouts, and
Views
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Publish Layouts and Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Use Projects in a Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Use Projects in a Multiple Operating System Environment . . . . 114
Chapter 6
Create and Modify Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Control the Properties of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Work with Object Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Overview of Object Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Display and Change the Properties of Objects . . . . . . . 118
Copy Properties Between Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Work with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Overview of Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Use Layers to Manage Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Create and Name Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Change Layer Settings and Layer Properties . . . . . . . . 124
Override Layer Properties in Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Group and Sort the List of Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Reconcile New Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Work with Layer States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Work with Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Set the Current Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Change the Color of an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Use Color Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Work with Linetypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Overview of Linetypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Load Linetypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Set the Current Linetype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Change the Linetype of an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Control Linetype Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Display Linetypes on Short Segments and Polylines . . . . 141
Control Lineweights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Overview of Lineweights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
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