Properties in AutoCAD

Name: Properties in AutoCAD
Author: Patrick Porter

Continue your engineering layout creation journey with this intermediate course

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Hello, in this particular lesson I'm going to be introducing you to colors and lineweights. So before we get started, I'd like for you to make sure you've opened up the Colors and Lineweights drawing as I have shown here on my screen. And once you get that open, let's go ahead and follow along. Now, the properties that we are about to look at these are gonna be for the properties of individual objects. And you must be careful when assigning these properties to individual objects, 'cause typically you will assign these properties to layers. When you assign these properties to individual objects may make it difficult to and what layers objects are a part of. So let's go ahead and take a look at these properties that we're talking about. On the ribbon here, I'm on the home tab and all the way over here to the right under the properties area. At the top, we have the color. Click on dropdown arrow here. And this is where you can define the color for all objects that you are about to modify, draw or create. So right now it's set to ByLayer. That means that every object that you create right now will use the ByLayer settings, which in this case is layer zero. If I was to set a color here, I'll choose red. Then every object that I would draw right now will have the color red. Independent of what the layer settings are. The layer settings suggest the color is white. So if I was to draw a rectangle right now It's gonna come out red. Even though the layer is white. If I set my color back to ByLayer, when I rectangle it's going to come out assuming the colors defined by the layer. If you needed to change to a different color for your objects. You can come over here. You can choose any of these colors that are displayed here. You can go to more colors, to have access to even more colors, The ByLayer setting or you can use either one of these other colors displayed here by selecting it or by typing out their name. There's the true color tab. And then there's the color books as well. So that's taking a look at colors. Gonna cancel here. I'm gonna leave this at ByLayer. Now let's take a look at the lineweights Right here we have a chart where I've our already set up all of the individual lineweights that are standard in AutoCAD. You can come over here hit the drop down arrow next to lineweights. And you can define a lineweight for every object that you are about to create. So right now it's set to ByLayer. If I was to drag down, Choose this one right here for 1.06 millimeters and now to draw a rectangle. Notice it's now coming out with that line. Wait, I'm gonna come back up to here, go down to lineweight settings. And here's where you can change the display of your lineweights from either millimeters to inches. You can turn on or off the display of line weights. So these objects have line weights assigned to them but I can turn off the display. Hit that to turn it off. And I can say, okay. And now the lineweights are turned off by display. But these objects, if I was to select this from down here Still lineweights assigned to them. Come back and take a look at the lineweights again, let me hit Esc first. The lineweight settings. The adjust display scale only affects the display of lineweights in this lineweight dialogue box and in the lineweight dropdown list. And here's our current lineweight setting. And that is a look at our lineweights in AutoCAD. I'm gonna say, okay here, and I'm gonna set this back to ByLayer. Thanks for watching. Join me in the next lesson where we will take a look at line types in AutoCAD.

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Course Description

Exploring object properties and modifications in drawings In these lessons, you’ll investigate object properties in your drawings, and learn how to modify object colors and lineweights. This course also explains how to easily load new linetypes and apply them to objects and layers in your file. Finally, you’ll look at how to utilize quick properties for easy access to key object settings. Additionally, you will learn how to load the full properties palette for a complete view of object properties and how to use the quick select command to filter your drawing for specific objects by their common properties.

What You'll Learn

Explore object properties in your drawings
Modify object colors and lineweights
Load new linetypes and apply them to objects and layers
Use quick properties for easy access to key object settings
Load the full properties palette for a complete view of object properties
Use the quick select command to filter your drawing for objects by their common properties

Key Takeaways

Object properties such as colors and lineweights can be investigated and modified within AutoCAD drawings.
New linetypes can be loaded and applied to both individual objects and layers in a file.
Quick properties provide easy access to key object settings.
The full properties palette offers a complete view of object properties.
The quick select command filters a drawing for specific objects by their common properties.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this course cover?

This course covers exploring object properties in drawings, modifying object colors and lineweights, loading and applying linetypes to objects and layers, using quick properties, loading the full properties palette, and using the quick select command to filter for objects by their common properties.

What skills will I gain from this course?

The course is associated with AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD DXF, AutoCAD Plant 3D, and CAD Programs.

How can I filter a drawing for specific objects in AutoCAD?

The course explains how to use the quick select command to filter your drawing for specific objects by their common properties.

What lessons are included in this course?

The lessons are Color and Lineweights, Linetypes, Quick Properties, Properties Palette, and Quick Select Command.