January 30, 2012

AutoCAD Layer Walk

Have you ever get confused which AutoCAD objects are on which layer? When you work with layer standard, you may have dozens or even hundreds of layers in your drawing. Finding which one sets to wrong layer can be a tedious work.
Here is a little tool that will be useful: layer walk.
Type LAYWALK then [enter] to activate this tool. Alternatively, you can access it from menu: Format> Layer Tools> Layer Walk.


With this tool, you can quickly check if your objects are placed correctly in their layer. You can turn off restore on exit if you find the one placed in wrong layer and move it.

Further reading:

If your layers overwhelm your layer list, you can also consider to use layer filter.

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