
Your Layer control is now accessible no matter which Ribbon Tab you have current.īut this article is about the tools you can use Instead of using the Layer control – so let’s move on… Layering Standards To do this, simply click over the Layer control and chose ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’. My quick tip here is to add the Layer control to the QAT (Quick Access Toolbar). One of the few problems I have with the Ribbon UI is that you need to switch to the ‘Home’ tab every time you want to change Layer. If you haven’t tried the AutoCAD ribbon yet, I highly recommend it – Give it a whirl. In particular, I want to highlight a number of AutoCAD’s tools that will help you to speed up creating objects on the right Layer, without having to constantly reach up to the Layers pull down to change which Layer is current.


In this post I want to concentrate on Layers. Using Polylines, Groups, Blocks, Xref’s and Layers will really help you to create and edit your geometry in an efficient fashion. If you are creating AutoCAD drawings which contain a lot of geometry, I highly recommend that you concentrate on keeping your geometry organised as you go along.
