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Autocad, Hints & Tips, LayerHip Tip: Copying All Layers of a Drawing to Another
You sometimes want to insert layers of a drawing to the one you use at the moment. It is very easy actually. Browse the drawing that contains layers you want like ‘BLOCK’ with INSERT command. When an insertion point is requested, press ESC and quit from the command. You will see all layers of the inserted drawing are now in the one you currently use. You may also erase the drawing after insert it.
Command: _INSERT
Enter block name or [?]: (Browse the drawing that contains the layers you want)
Insertion point: Press ESC key.
If there is a same layer with the one in the inserted drawing, the current one will stay. Do not forget; you may use PURGE command to erase unused layers in the drawing when you finished with it.
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May 6, 2008
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Use DesignCenter. A solution faster and versatile.
May 6, 2008
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Works fine if the complete layerset is non existing in the target drawing.
But if one of the layernames already exist, and the properties of that layer (color, lineweigth,..) are different, the new definition of that layer will not be inserted into the drawing.
May 8, 2008
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As an additional tip to Ignacio’s suggestion of using Design Center – One advantage of using DC to import layers [instead of inserting a block] is that you can control which layers you want to import (i.e. using the Ctrl and/or Shift keys). In other words, you may only need to import 1/2 dozen layers whereas you might end up importing over 100 layers you don’t need if you insert the block (and then have to take the time and effort to Purge the unwanted layers)
May 20, 2008
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I try it in acad 2007 , but it didn’t work, any idea why?