Design Director- Layers
Enables you to manipulate all the layers and layer sets in the drawing (see Snap Modes and Layer Sets).
To create a new layer or layer set, select Create New in the Design Director toolbar or local menu.
When Layers or Layer Sets is selected in the upper pane of the Design Director, the lower pane has the following options:
Active: Sets the layer as active, or applies the layer set. Also indicates the layer for a selected object or tool.
Visible: Sets the layer visibility.
Lock: Use this switch to lock layers, which means the objects on them will be read-only. You can add objects to locked layers, but you cannot edit or delete objects.
Color: Sets the layer color.
Order: The order number of the layer.
Line Style: specifies the Line Style for the layer.
Pen Width: Specifies the Pen Width for the layer.
Print Style: Specifies the Print Style for the layer.
Layer Sets
A layer set is a group of layers, which can be handy if you want to set visibility, locking, and other parameters for multiple layers.
Select Layers in the upper pane of the Design Director.
On the lower pane, select the layers you want to include in the layer set.
Select Create Set in the Design Director toolbar or local menu.
Select Layer Sets in the upper pane in order to see the defined layer sets in the lower pane.
Select the properties (visibility, locking, etc.) of the layer set. When the layer set is made Active, these properties will be automatically applied to all layers in the set.
Layer Filters
Layer filters provide you with a powerful tool to organize your work, workflow and drawing. This feature also allows you to import DWG file that have embedded layer filters
Layer filters will organize you layer by a defined set of parameters.
Layer Templates
Layer templates allow you to create and save alternate configurations for layers.
Layer templates store how layers are setup, but do not store layers thenselves. Layer templates are saved in a *.lrs file which can be stored anywher in you system directory.
All layers which meet the parameters define by the filter will be grouped in the lower panel of the Design Director.
Note: The Show Filters and Group by Filters options must be turned on in the Design Director options for Filter groups to be displayed.
You can control all of the settings for the layers in the group. This means that if you change the color adjacent to the filter the color for all of its layer will be change to that color. If you change the visibility adjacent to the filter the visibility of all its layer will be changed to that visibility. If for any setting the layers contained in the filter have mixed settings for an option the filter will display a blank field or an ellipsis (...) for that setting. however you can still control the settings of the filtered layers.
To Change Layer Color Properties via the Filter
In the Design Director of a filtered drawing:
In the lower panel of the Design Director, hover the cursor over the color field adjacent to a filter.
Click on the color field.
When the Color dialog appears, select a color.The colors of all the filtered layers will be changed to the selected color.
To Create a Filter
Click the Create Layers Filter button in the toolbar of the Design Director.
When Prompted assign a name to the filter.
When the Filter Dialog appears, specify the parameters for the filter.
Click OK.
To Edit a Filters Parameters
Select the Filter in the top Panel of the Design Director.
Right click and Select Edit Filter Parameters..
When the Filter Dialog appears, reset the parameters for the filter.
Click OK.
Layer Filter Dialog
The Layers filter dialog allows you to specify how your filters work.
The dialog is divided into three sections: Toolbar, Filter Parameters table, Filtering Results table.
Filter Toolbar
Parent Filter: Filter can have sub-filters. This setting allows you to specify a parent filter that will constrain the list of layer that the current filter will apply to.
Insert Wildcard: This button opens the Wildcard dialog which allow you to insert a wildcard into the currently selected field.
The dialog also defines how each of the wildcards function.
Duplicate Row: This button duplicates the currently selected row in the Filter Parameters table.
Delete Row: This button deletes the currently selected row in the Filter Parameters table.
Filter Parameters
The Filter Parameters table is where you specify how the filter will work by entering a set of parameters. Parameters are defined by values and wildcards. Each field in takes specific types of values.
Name: The Name field uses the name of layers to filter. Full names or parts of names can be combined with wildcards to specify what layers you want the filter to catch. The name field is the most versatile in regard to using wildcards.
Active: The Active field uses the Active status of layers to filter. It can take two values TRUE or FALSE. These can be combined with the NOT (~) wildcard to signify the opposite meaning. E.g. ~TRUE means = is not true. Since there can be only one Active layer at anytime, this option will make the filter dynamic as to what layers are captured.
Visible: The Visible field uses the Visible status of layers to filter. It can take two values TRUE or FALSE. These can be combined with the NOT (~) wildcard to signify the opposite meaning. E.g. ~TRUE = is not true.
Locked: The Locked field uses the Locked status of layers to filter. It can take two values TRUE or FALSE. These can be combined with the NOT (~) wildcard to signify the opposite meaning. E.g. ~TRUE = is not true.