From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Space Management

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Using lineweight (LWT)

Using lineweight (LWT) - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using lineweight (LWT)

- [Voiceover] So we're staying in our 00_GND_FM_SPACEAREAS.dwg file, and we're still looking at how we define those space areas on our Facilities Management drawing. So you'll notice from the previous video, there's our nice Gradient Fill, top left there; you can't miss it. It highlights that room beautifully on the FM drawing. Now, another method of highlighting areas and polylines on your FM drawings, especially for space management is to utilize a thing called LineWeight, or LWT in AutoCAD. Now, what you will find is that the LineWeight setting, down on the Status Bar, might not be switched on. So we come down to the bottom-right corner, and click on the little three lines, and you get this great, big, long menu pop-up like that. You can just see, towards the top, there's LineWeight, so you can see that mine is ticked. So that indicates that LineWeight is on. If I click on it again, it un-ticks it, and switches it off on the Status Bar, at the bottom of the screen. If I click on it…

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