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Using lineweight (LWT)

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Using lineweight (LWT)

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- [Voiceover] Again, we're staying in the 00_GND_FM_DEFINE.dwg file, and we're just following along from the previous video. Now, you'll notice that we can pretty clearly see all of the area polylines that we've placed so far. They're on this nice, obvious cyan-colored layer, like so. Now, it may be that you want those lines to be bolder, and to stand out more on your facilities management drawing. So what you want to do there is you want to change the line weight, the LWT value of those particular polylines. Now the way that you do this is in your Layer Properties Manager. So go to the Home tab on the ribbon, and I'm going to jump in to my Layers panel, which is a little bit squished up because of my screen resolution, and I'm going to go into the Layer Properties Manager. Now, it's the FM-ROOMPLINES layer that we're looking at, and at the moment, if I come across here, I'll just select it, that highlights it nicely in blue, and if I just expand this column here a tad, like that, you…

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