How do i know on which layer is a line?

[KarolR]

In a drawing, when i right click and select a line's properties, it only gives my the Bylayer etc' line types.

On what layer is he, and how can i change it?

[JD Mather]

Check your Styles and Standards Editor - all linetype layer definitions are there.

[KarolR]

I understand any type of line is automatically placed in it's appropriate layer.

Can this behavior be changed?

In Autocad, there was the current layer, and everything i drew was placed on it.

[JD Mather]

Inventor is not AutoCAD.

Inventor uses standards.

What standard do you use?

You set that up using your Styles and Standards Editor.

[Dana W]

I understand any type of line is automatically placed in it's appropriate layer.

Can this behavior be changed?

In Autocad, there was the current layer, and everything i drew was placed on it.

KarolR, you posted in a forum for AutoCad Inventor. May I suggest in the future, posting in a forum catagory that is relevent to your question, comment, or software. That way you may very well receive more help, more quickly.

 

On the properties sheet, a selected object's layer name is the second field down from the top. The only time there will not be a layer name displayed there, is if you have selected more than one object, and the selected bunch of objects are spread around on more than one layer. AutoCad does not display multiple values in a property field for multiple objects simply because the data would be ambiguous at best. It does however display a property, like layer name, for multiple objects if all those objects happen to have the same value for that property.

 

Current Layer is not a layer. It is the layer you are using at the moment. The word current, in this context is used to mean "now in use". Lines are not automatically placed on any layer because of any kind of 'appropriatness'. Anything you draw is automatically placed on the "Current" layer because that is the layer you are currently using.

 

Do you use the Layers toolbar? If so, you can change which layer is 'current' by clicking the down arrow symbol next to the layer name, and then clicking another layer in the list. You also can change layers by selecting an object, and while it is selected, clicking the "Make Object's Layer Current" button just adjascent to the aforementioned dropdown list.

 

To change the layer that a line or any other object is drawn on, click the line or object, then click the layer drop down list, then click the desired layer name. The line or object will then be on that layer instead of its original layer.

 

If you do not have the layers tool bar displayed, right click on any activation button or blank area on any of your toolbars that are visible. You will see a dropdown list. You will see a Check mark in front of the toolbars that are already displayed. There are a few that are the 'default' set of toolbars. Roll over the list and click Layers. Then you may drag the now visible Layers toolbar into a better position if you need to, or leave it where it is. I have found this particular toolbar, layers, to be nearly essential. Many Cad operators who shun toolbars and insist the 'Command Method' is the only way also will use the Layers toolbar.

 

Get used to thinking of a layer as a name for a collection of objects. An Autocad layer is simply a mechanizm used to give a label to a group of items that have a user inferred relationship to each other. AutoCad does not know which layer you want to use. You have to pick one. Layers don't stack like pancakes. There is no real physical order to the layers except that the 'Current layer' is pretty much the one that is "NOW" on top, and will be drawn on "NOW". the layer list however, can be displayed in different sort orders.

 

You can also use commands to get all this done as well, but I didn't learn AutoCad in the stone age, so I have not attempted to memorize any of the more than several thousand commands so I won't risk giving you any that might be wrong.

Edited September 19, 2012 by Dana W

[JD Mather]

I think Dana is referring to AutoCAD.

In Inventor go to the Annotation tab and select the line or other entity and you can see from this list what Standard layer it is on.

In my example I use the ANSI standard (American National Standards Institute).

[Dana W]

I think Dana is referring to AutoCAD.

Cuz the OP's Using field is displaying AutoCad 2009. No evidence the question relates to inventor.

[JD Mather]

No evidence the question relates to inventor.

 

Uhmmm, isn't this posted in the Inventor forum?

[Dana W]

Uhmmm, isn't this posted in the Inventor forum?

OK, I guess it is that cut and dried, then.