Setting Visibilities

The active class and design layer are always visible; each inactive class and design layer can be set to be visible, invisible, or gray. The visibilities of inactive classes and design layers are controlled in a very similar way, and they both can be set independently for the drawing area, saved views, and viewports.

Class and design layer visibility in the drawing area and in saved views are also affected by the Class Options and Layer Options settings. See Setting Class and Design Layer Options for details.

For maximum usability, visibilities can be set from multiple places, but the method of setting visibilities is the same.

The level of gray for grayed layers and classes can be adjusted for printing; see Printing a File.

To change the setting for a single class or design layer, click in one of its visibility columns. To change the settings for multiple items, click a visibility column as follows:

Press the Ctrl key (Windows) or Cmd key (Macintosh) and click selected class or layer rows

Press the Shift key and click the first and last rows of a group of classes or layers

Press the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Macintosh) and click any row to change all classes or layers

 

Parameter	Description
Visible column	Class/design layer is visible; objects in this class/layer display when another class/layer is active
Invisible column	Class/design layer is invisible; objects in this class/layer display only when the class/layer is active
Gray column	Class/design layer is gray; objects in this class/layer are dimmed when another class/layer is active
Don’t Save column	For saved views, a fourth column displays to the right of the other columns. When selected, class/design layer visibility is not saved for the saved view; the current class/layer visibility is used when the view is displayed.