
When this happens I just pause, shake my head and hesitate for about 15 seconds while I calm myself down as I know I'm about to spend at least an hour correcting something that should have never happened to begin with. I love it when we get drawings in where the block entities are on specified and correct layers, but the block itself is on Layer 0. When you create dimensions in IntelliCAD or AutoCAD, the dimensioning components such as extension lines, arrowheads, dimension lines, and dimension text are placed on the current layer. 0 Layer is one thing (block entities, etc) but even still it is prone to erroneous drawings. These layers can be eliminated with LAYDEL and LAYMRG commands, which allow you to remove unused layers from your drawing. The Defpoints Layer is a standard system layer used by AutoCAD and IntelliCAD.
AUTOCAD WHAT IS DEFPOINTS LAYER HOW TO
Using AutoCAD's DEFPOINTS Layer and Non - Plotting Feature AutoCAD has a. elfu 5.8 views, 53 likes, 0 loves, 7 comments, 85 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from CAD CAREER: How to create Defpoints Layer in AutoCAD. So the best thing to do is never use those layers.īut once again I'll iterate that Autodesk should have taken care of these two ridiculous layers a long time ago. You also can use AutoCAD's capability to freeze layers ( a condition in which.


Just makes yet another step to run through when this does occur, no matter how often or not. Sure it might work out in one project but what about the next project?Īlso if the 0 layer is frozen and your Viewports are on Defpoints then guess what: you can see them but you can't select them. After turning off or freezing Layer 0 in an AutoCAD drawing file, objects placed on the Defpoints layer cannot be selected or edited. So because of this you can't control things drawn on that layer. Defpoints: When you create any kind of dimension, AutoCAD places one or more definition points (universally known as defpoints) on a special layer named. These are the only two layers I know of that do this (do not carry over into XREF host drawings). Defpoints and 0 Layer inherit the layer properties of the host drawing. The only reason is because it's in Paperspace, and because of this it can never be XREF'ed into another drawing. Viewports is the only thing I'll "let slide" with being on the Defpoints layer.
