How to Copy an Entire Layer in Autocad

Monday, February 21, 2011
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Copying an Entire Layer in Autocad is one of the important tricks every autocad draftsman should know. To do that, follow the following steps.

1. First make sure that the autocad layer you want to copy is visible, thawed and unlocked.
2. Enter the command QSELECT.
3. After you enter the command above, a dialog box will appear. (Entire drawing, Multiple, Layer, Equals)
4. In the dropwown menu 'Value', select the layer you want to copy
5. Click on "Include in new selection set" radio button.
6. Uncheck 'Append to current selection set' then click OK.
7. At this point, you should have selected everything on the layer.
8. Enter command -COPYTOLAYER .
9. Type in the name of the new layer name that you want, and press Enter.

10. At the prompt 'The layer [your layer name] does not exist. Do you want to create it? Y/N', enter Y.

11. At the prompt 'Specify base point or.', just press ENTER.
12. That's all there is to it to copy an entire autocad layer

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