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Work with Layers | 183
■ Show All Xref Dependent Layers. Displays all the layers being referenced
from another drawing.
Once you have saved a filter, it is displayed in the Named Layer Filters list in
the Layer Properties Manager. Saved filters are stored in the drawing file.
Sort Layers
Once you have created layers, you can sort them by name, visibility
properties, color, lineweight, plot style, or linetype. In the Layer Properties
Manager, click the column heading to sort layers by the property in that
column. Layer names can be sorted in ascending or descending alphabetical
order.
You can use the wild-card characters in the table to sort layers by name
Character Definition
# (Pound) Matches any numeric digit
@ (At) Matches any alphabetic character
. (Period) Matches any nonalphanumeric character
* (Asterisk) Matches any string and can be used anywhere in the search
string
? (Question mark) Matches any single character; for example, ?BC matches ABC,
3BC, and so on
~ (Tilde) Matches anything but the pattern, for example; ~*AB*matches
all strings that don't contain AB
[ ] Matches any one of the characters enclosed; for example,
[AB]C matches AC and BC
[~] Matches any character not enclosed; for example, [~AB]C
matches XC but not AC
[-] Specifies a range for a single character; for example, [A-G]C
matches AC, BC, and so on to GC, but not HC
` (Reverse quote) Reads the next character literally; for example, `*AB matches
*AB