Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021

The layer states manager

Imagine that you have lots of layers in a drawing and you need to show your drawing in various states, such as a state in which only walls and doors are visible, another state in which only walls and dimensions are visible, and so on. To get these states, you can hide the layers that you don't want and keep only required layers active. But doing this again and again would become repetitive and would take time every time you had to change the state of a layer. To make the states of these layers permanent, you can use the layer states manager, which is found in the expanded Layers panel as shown in the following figure:

Fig 5.69: Layer states drop-down menu on the expanded Layers panel

In our example drawing containing ...