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122 | Chapter 10 Organize Drawings and Apply Standards
To convert a drawing’s layers to standard layer settings
1 From the Tools menu, choose CAD Standards ➤ Layer Translator.
2 In the Layer Translator, do one of the following:
■ Choose Load to load layers from a drawing, a drawing template, or a
drawing standards file. In the Select Drawing File dialog box, select the
file you want and choose Open.
■ Choose New to define a new layer. In the New Layer dialog box, enter
a name for the new layer, select its properties, and then choose OK.
You can repeat step 2 as many times as you want. If you load other files
containing layers of the same name as ones already shown in the Translate
To list, the layer properties first loaded in the list are maintained; any
duplicate layer properties are ignored.
3 Map layers in the current drawing to the layers you want to convert to.
Use either or both of the following methods to map layers:
■ To map all identically named layers from one list to the other, choose
Map Same.
■ To map individual layers, in the Translate From list, select one or more
layers. In the Translate To list, select the layer whose properties you
want to use, and then choose Map to define the mapping. You can
repeat this method for each layer or group of layers to be translated.
To remove a mapping, select the mapping from the Layer Translation
Mappings list and then chose Remove. To remove all mappings, right-
click in the list and choose Remove All.
4 (Optional) You can perform the following tasks in the Layer Translator:
■ To change the properties of a mapped layer, in the Layer Translation
Mappings list, select the mapping whose properties you want to
change, and then choose Edit. In the Edit Layer dialog box, change the
linetype, color, lineweight, or plot style of the mapped layer, and then
choose OK.
■ To customize the process of layer translation, choose Settings. In the
Settings dialog box, select the options you want, and then choose OK.
■ To save layer mappings to a file, choose Save. In the Save Layer
Mappings dialog box, enter a file name, and then choose OK.
5 Choose Translate to perform the layer translations you have specified.
CAD Standards toolbar
Command line
LAYTRANS