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Creating your facilities drawing (FM)

Creating your facilities drawing (FM) - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Creating your facilities drawing (FM)

- [Voiceover] You'll notice I'm still in the GA structural plan drawing, right now. What we're going to look at now is just creating and managing our FM drawing. Now, the good thing is it's still open, so over here I'll just click on the tab, and there it is there. Now, I've already put the proprietary title block into my FM drawing. So if I just click on it, like so, and then hover over it, like that, you can see that it's a block reference, and it's on layer 0. So, ideally, we want that on a different layer. What I'll do now, is just go back to the home tab on the ribbon. Layers panel, mine's a bit squished due to the resolution of my screen, and I just wanna change the layer that it's on. I wanna put it on the A-ANNO-TITLEBLOCK layer, which is in the FM drawing already. Now, the reason I'm putting everything onto layers, especially in your FM drawing, is to make sure that when you create an FM drawing, everything is layer-specific, so that you can isolate layers and switch things…

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