Adding objects to layers - FNG here

[bgood2go]

I am just learning AC and have the tutorial video by Brian Benton for 2012. He does a great job of explaining what layers are and how to manage them once they have been created but he does not touch on how to add objects to a layer after you create it??? I watched the layers section 4 times and nothing about this.

I can create a new layer fine and also a new object but unless I am just blind and stupid (which is possible) I do not see any options in the layer manager letting you add an object to a layer? Got--- create new layer, freeze layer, isolate layer, etc, etc, etc but nothing to do the simple and most basic task of adding your newly created object to a layer-----either a newly created one you just made or an existing one? Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

Brian

[f700es]

Just select the objects and then use the layer pull down and select a new layer. The items should be on the new layer. That easy

[bgood2go]

Thanks but - yeah, would think it would be that easy but I have tried every permutation of that and layer options there are. I must have some setting enabled that is doing undesirable things to my layers.??? I select the objects and go to their properties and it shows that I have them on the correct layer....but when I am in model space and select the objects the command line indicates they are on the current active layer, which is not where I want them??? I have all layers turned on exit out of all commands and the objects are not the color of the layer I assigned them to. I am quite vexed at this point. Thoughts?

[f700es]

Are you drawing "by layer" by this I mean are all setting in the Properties pallet set to "by layer"?

by-layer.jpg

With this setting all items take the properties that you set in the layer manager when you created the layer. When that particular layer is active.

[bgood2go]

yup- heres what I got..

rect array1.jpg

[f700es]

Well I can almost read it Is that per chance a block? If so it was created on that green layer and not drawn by-layer and it will not take on the properties of the inserted layer, looks like a red colored layer. Double click on that item and see what happens.
Send me the file if you want to. I'll take a look.

f700es<at>yahoo<dot>com

[rkent]

You have an associative array there so it acts like a block. The object may be on one layer but if you create the array on another then it will say it is on that layer while using the object from another layer. Explode the array (at least temporarily) to see the result.

[f700es]

Ah so it is a triangle, got to get my eyes checked. Thought it was a square

[bgood2go]

sorry about the first pic...just installed Snagit so I can get better shots......try this..... this is a rectangular array so object or block? Again newby so still figuring out who is what etc...7-24-2012 3-36-41 PM.jpg

[rkent]

From 2013 help file

Associative. Items are contained in a single array object, similar to a block.