About Working With Layer Groups

With the Layer Properties Manager, you can create different layer groups to produce working views and backgrounds from large building data sets. Layer groups help you work more efficiently in drawings that have many layers. You can change the settings of a layer group to apply the changes to all layers in the group at one time. For example, you can lock a layer group to lock all the layers in the filter.

Types of Layer Groups

There are five types of layer groups:

Type Description
All Is always present and lists all the layers and other layer groups in the drawing.
Xref Lists any layers in external reference files linked with the current drawing. This group is automatically created when you xref a drawing into the current drawing.
group filters Contain layers that you have assigned to them.
property filters Contain layers based on a filter that you specify. You can base filters on layer names and other layer properties.
layer standards filters Contain layers associated with a specified standards category.

Rules for Layer Groups

The following group rules apply when you are creating and working with layer groups:

Managing Layer Groups

You can add and subtract layers from layer groups. You can change the standard AutoCAD properties for the layers in groups, rename layer groups, delete layer groups, and change the filters in filter groups.