Take a picture… It will last longer. :)
Today’s installment is all about capturing your layer display information. When working on a Civil 3D model, we tend to accumulate a ton of layers. Using these layers, we control how (or if) various parts of our model are displayed.
Using different layer combinations, one version of layers could be used for plotting, another version could be used for editing, another version could be used for review… I’m sure you get the idea.
If only there were a quick way to save and restore these layer display representations.
Fortunately for us, there is!! By leveraging the LayerStateSave tool, we can quickly capture the layer display within our model. We can then turn some layers on, turn others off, maybe tweak a color or two and then easily restore our saved layer state when finished.
Using the Layer State portion of the ribbon even lets us preview the results of each layer state before we commit to restoring one!! Kind of like a try before you buy.
Check out the video below to see how it works.
-Jerry
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