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198 | Chapter 14 Control the Properties of Objects
To change the layer of an object
1 Select the objects whose layer you want to change.
2 On the Layers toolbar, click the Layer control.
3 Select the layer that you want to assign to the objects.
Layers toolbar
To change the default linetype assigned to a layer
1 On the Layers toolbar, click the Layer Properties Manager button.
2 In the Layer Properties Manager, select the linetype name you want to
change.
3 In the Select Linetype dialog box, select a linetype.
If the linetype you need is not listed, choose Load. Select a linetype and
choose OK, or choose File to open additional linetype definition (LIN)
files.
4 Choose OK to exit each dialog box.
Layers toolbar
Command line
LAYER
To change the linetype of an object, overriding the layer's linetype
1 Select the objects whose linetype you want to change.
2 On the Properties toolbar, click the Linetype control.
3 Choose the linetype that you want to assign to the objects.
Command line
LINETYPE
Control Linetype Scale
You can use the same linetype at different scales by changing the linetype
scale factor either globally or individually for each object.
By default, AutoCAD uses both global and individual linetype scales of 1.0.
The smaller the scale, the more repetitions of the pattern are generated per
drawing unit. For example, with a setting of 0.5, two repetitions of the
pattern in the linetype definition are displayed for each drawing unit. Short
line segments that cannot display one full linetype pattern are displayed as
continuous. You can use a smaller linetype scale for lines that are too short
to display even one dash sequence.