Using Layers to Organize Your Drawing - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 262

and that are easiest to select. You'll reassign them to their new layer using the
Layer drop-down list. You'll then move to a set of objects that belong on a dif-
ferent layer or belong on the same layer as the previously selected object and are
slightly more difficult to select, and so on.
1. If it's not already, open 06A-FPLAY2.dwg by clicking the Open button
located on the Quick Access toolbar.
2. In the drawing, click and drag a selection window down and to the left
to use a crossing selection window (green box with dashed lines) to
select the front deck, as shown in the top of Figure 6.17.
See the next section, “Selecting Objects with Selection Windows,”
for a complete description of the window selection process.
3. Grips appear and the lines ghost (become dashed), signaling that the
objects have been selected. Hold the Shift key down and select the
front stairs with a crossing selection, as shown in the middle image in
Figure 6.17. Selecting objects with the Shift key pressed causes objects
that are already selected to become unselected (removed from the
selection set), while there is no effect on unselected objects.
4. The stair lines appear solid again. Repeat the process on the rear deck
so that the deck is selected but the back stairs are not. The selected
components should look like the bottom image in Figure 6.17.
Notice also that in the Layer drop-down list, the layer being dis-
played now is layer 0 rather than A-WALL, the current layer. When
objects are selected with no command running, the Layer drop-down
list displays the layer to which the selected objects are currently
assigned. If selected objects are on more than one layer, the Layer
drop-down list is blank.
5. Click the Layer drop-down list to open it (see Figure 6.18).
6. Click the A-DECK layer. The list closes. The A-DECK layer appears
in the Layer drop-down list. The deck lines have been moved to the
A-DECK layer and are now green.
7. Press Esc to deselect the lines and remove the grips. The current
layer, A-WALL, returns to the Layer drop-down list.
8. Save your drawing as 06A-FPLAY3.dwg using the Application Menu ➢
Save As ➢ AutoCAD Drawing.
This is the process you need to go through for each object so it will be placed
on the proper layer. In the next section, you'll move the thresholds and steps