Using Layer States

A very useful feature, familiar to Express Tools users, is Layer States. This feature enables you to save and restore “layer states” as well as export a given state to a file that can be retrieved later or even imported into another drawing.

Often while working with your drawings you will need to go beyond the saved filters method of restoring a pattern of displayed layers. In this section you will discover the power of the Save State feature and its companion, the Layer States Manager.

Layer State Saving

In the previous topic on Filters you created named filters and used them to help display layers in the Layer Properties Manager. Another method now available is a Layer State. Using the following exercise you will learn ...

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