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Table Of Contents
Control Views in Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Scale Views in Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Control Visibility in Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Scale Linetypes in Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Align Views in Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Rotate Views in Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Reuse Layouts and Layout Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Create and Modify Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Chapter 14 Control the Properties of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Work with Object Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Overview of Object Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Display and Change the Properties of Objects . . . . . . . . . . 307
Copy Properties Between Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Work with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Overview of Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Use Layers to Manage Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Create and Name Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Change Layer Settings and Layer Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Override Layer Properties in Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Filter and Sort the List of Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Use New Layer Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Reconcile New Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Work with Layer States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Work with Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Set the Current Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Change the Color of an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Use Color Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Work with Linetypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Overview of Linetypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Load Linetypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Set the Current Linetype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Change the Linetype of an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Control Linetype Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Display Linetypes on Short Segments and Polylines . . . . . . . 369
Control Lineweights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Overview of Lineweights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Display Lineweights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Set the Current Lineweight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Change the Lineweight of an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Control the Display Properties of Certain Objects . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Control the Display of Polylines, Hatches, Gradient Fills,
Lineweights, and Text
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Control the Transparency of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
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