AutoCAD How To: Custom Layer Properties for Specific Viewports using Overrides – 2 Minute Tuesday

Brandon

Hey Everybody,

I hope you had a great week and getting ready for an even better weekend. I know this one is a few days late but I wanted to get it up on the blog before the weekend and next week’s post.

In today’s 2 Minute Tuesday x Tuesday Tip Post, we take a look at a super useful yet underutilized feature within AutoCAD called Viewport Overrides. VP Overrides allow us to customize layer properties like color, linetype, lineweight, and even transparency on a viewport to viewport basis. By changing these settings in an override, the actually object properties remain the same in every other layout/viewport as well as in the model space.

This allows us to selectively highly or in our examples case dull/grey out specific linework without affecting the rest of our drawing. This one really is helpful and I hope you’ll take a look and enjoy the video below!

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Brandon

Brandon is a Civil Designer, Aspiring Blogger/Creator, Husband, Father to two Amazing Kids and Tech Aficionado from a small town in Canada. He has been obsessed with design and technology since he can remember and working as a Civil Designer for nearly as long. Brandon’s blog and Youtube channel, CADIntentions.com has been his outlet and excuse for keeping up with new tech and trends in the CAD design world for the last 10 years growing to more than 60,000 subscribers and over 15,000,000 views, while also being the source of many great friendships and unique opportunities. If you would like to Sponsor CAD Intentions or Work together in some way, Please visit my About Page and send me an email: http://cadintentions.com/about-me/

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