VISUALISING LAYERS WITH THE LAYWALK COMMAND
The layer walk tool is one the most
subtly hidden tools on the layers panel of AutoCAD. Despite its usefulness,
many people don’t even know it exists. In this article, I will describe this
tool and how to use it.
To begin using the wayer walk tool,
click on the “laywalk” icon on the expanded layers panel of the home tab.
Alternatively, you can use its command equivalent LAYWALK. The layer walk
window will pop up with a list of all layers in the current drawing as shown in
the image to the left.
VISUALISING LAYERS
Click on any layer in the window and
you will notice that all other objects will be hidden from the drawing, leaving
only the objects on the selected layer. You can press and hold the CTRL or
Shift key to select multiple layers.
If you want to reverse your
selection and hide the selected layers then right click in the
window containing the layer names and select “Invert Selection” from the
contextual menu. To save these settings as layer states, right click again in
the laywalk window and click on “Save Layer State”. Give your layer state a
name and description and click OK.
When you exit the layer walk window
the original layer state is restored. If you want to keep the modified layer
state active for the current drawing, un-check the “Restore On Exit” radio
button on the layer walk window as shown in image below.
GETTING MORE FROM LAYWALK
This tool can be used for a lot more
than a layer visualization tool. With Laywalk you can locate layers
that don’t contain objects and purge them directly by clicking the “Purge”
button in the lower left corner.
If you are not sure about a layer in
your drawing then click the “Select Objects” button at the top left corner of
the Laywalk window, select objects from the drawing area, and then press enter.
All layers containing selected objects will become active and all other
entities in the drawing will be hidden.
You can also find
those stubborn layers that don’t contain objects but behave as layers
containing objects by selecting all objects with the “Select Objects” button as
mentioned above. When you select all objects from the drawing area and then
inspect the list of layers in the Laywalk window, you will find that those
deceptive layers are among the un-selected layers which you can then purge using
the LAYDEL command.
If you want to extract even more
information with this tool, right click on the Laywalk window and select
“Inspect” from the contextual menu. You will see a window that contains the
number of layers in your drawing, the number of selected layers and the number
of objects on the selected layers.
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