From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Space Management
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Layer naming strategy - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Space Management
Layer naming strategy
- [Voiceover] We're staying in our 00_GND_FM_SETTINGS.dwg file, and what we're going to look at now is our layer naming strategy. Now, obviously we've brought in our GA plan, our structural plan, and we've renamed it FP. The reason we've renamed it FP is if I go to the Home tab on the ribbon, and go into the Layers panel here, and then into Layer Properties, all of my reference layers just start with FP like so, Facilities Plan. Now, you'll notice we've already got a couple of FM layers in the drawing already. We've got the FM-XREFS layer, that we've used to reference in that GA plan, and we've also got FM-VIEWPORTS so that we've got a view ports layer ready for when we start putting view ports into the layout tabs. So, we need to follow that same layer naming philosophy. So I'm going to click up here on New Layer and there's my next new layer. So this is going to be FM, and what you might want to do here is put a dash and then you might want to put something like space polylines…
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