Exercise duration: ~15 minutes

Organize objects
In this exercise you will edit a drawing and add
room boundaries using polylines. You will
practice creating and using layer states. When
completed, you will find the area of the room.

Learning objectives:

• Select objects based on shared

properties using Quick Select.
• Edit text properties.
• Create and manage layer states.
• Create room boundaries with polylines.
• Obtain area dimensions of rooms.

The completed exercise

1. Open the Bakery-Plan Revision 2.dwg

drawing file.

Figure 1. The Bakery-Plan Revision 2.dwg

drawing file

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2. Use the Quick Select tool to select all
the text that has a height of 220 mm.

Figure 2. The QSELECT command

3. Change the following properties of the

text:

Color = ByLayer
Text Style = BONGARD1
Text Height = 200 mm

Figure 3. The Properties palette showing

some of the text properties changed

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4. Create a new layer state named ALL
VISIBLE to preserve the current layer
configuration.

Figure 4. The Layer States Manager

displaying the ALL VISIBLE layer state

5. Create a new layer state named CREATE

AREAS where the layers are set as
follows:

• equipment, text, and columns

layers are frozen

• doors and windows layer is

turned off (not frozen)

• door thresholds layer is turned

on and thawed Figure 5. Saving the new layer state CREATE
AREAS

6. Experiment switching between the ALL

VISIBLE and CREATE AREAS layer
states.

Figure 6. The Layer States Manager

displaying both layer states

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7. Set the CREATE AREAS layer state as
current.

Figure 7. The Layers ribbon panel showing

CREATE AREAS layer state as current

8. Zoom Extents so all the walls are

visible and in the current window.

Figure 8. The drawing zoomed to extents

with the layer state CREATE AREAS current

9. Set the areas layer as current.

Figure 9. The Layers ribbon panel showing

the areas layer current

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10. Use the Boundary command and
choose to Pick Points. Set the Object
type to Polyline and the Island
detection turned on to generate
polylines inside of each room. Pick a
point within the interior of each room
to generate a polyline for each room.
Continue until all the rooms have a
polyline boundary.

Figure 10. The Boundary Creation dialog box

11. Turn on the text layer so that you can

see the room labels.

Figure 11. The text layer turned on

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12. Locate the cookie dough preparation
room and select its boundary polyline.

Figure 12. The cookie dough preparation

area showing its red boundary polyline

13. Use Properties > Geometry to get the

area of the room boundary polyline.

Figure 13. The Properties palette with the

room area boundary polyline selected

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