Refresher Course

I used to use AutoCAD many years ago. Because of the economy, I have had to change occupations. I know have to use AutoCAD on a regular basis. It is coming back to me slowly, but I have a few questions, and there are not any knowledgeable people at my work that can help. I am currently using AutoCAD 2000, hope to be upgrading to a liitle bit newer software soon. I want to identify an entire layer to move or copy it. What is the simplest way to do that?

Mary

Marytban welcome to the forums! Lived in Mesa for three years...long time ago.

Where in AZ are you posting from?

Try this tutorial, online, excellent. **Note** You can download the various chapters in *.pdf file format, print or save 'em on your laptop for future reference.

Do you use AutoCAD on your laptop? Seems the XP OS at work is better suited to the task, you might have problems tryin' to load AutoCAD 2000 using Vista.

But, that's another subject.........if.

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/48-568/2DVideosWEB_files/frame.htm

I am in southeastern Arizona, south of Tucson, close to the border. Not as hot as Mesa.

I checked out the tutorial, and it is great for the refreshing the basics, Thanks! I did go through the intro to layers, but it didn't go over identifing all the object on a layer. I need to move a layer that has a lot of objects, and I didn't want to have to click on each one. I know there is an easy way to do this, but I cannot think of it.

Thanks again for your help!

Mary

Try layer walk http://cad-notes.com/2009/06/autocad-layer-walk/

Alternately you could use the QSELECT command to select all objects on a specified layer. Or all objects of a certain type (all circles, for example, or everything that's green).

If you're like me and only need about ten or twenty layers, (I have to turn down jobs drawing Virginia class submarines because of that habit.) you could turn off all layers but the one you want to move everything out of, then select box the whole screen, then click on the destination layer in the layer list. You'll know if it worked when the screen goes blank. I just did that a few minutes ago with about a gadzillion dimensions I left on the wrong layer(s).

Longchamp and Dana W, thanks, that was just the refresher I needed. Both work great!