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[Doug Stephenson]

I hope all having a great weekend.

Could someone lead me in the right direction to learn about layering.

I'm thinking it may assist in taking steps out of my plan set creation.

Doug Stephenson

[Harlon Suttle]

There are layers and then there is building options....which is layers on steriods....checkout the vids on youtube and the softplan training vids....as well as do a search on this forum.....lots of really smart folks on here and very helpful....This forum is one of the best, so use it and share...great community....

[Dennis Asher]

To put it simply Doug, layers control visibility, color, line style, and pen style.  So if the visibility of a layer is turned off, everything on that layer will still extract in the model.  If you have something on a building option that is turned off, then that option won't extract in your model.  For example I have one layer with the pen set to print in green with solid lines and another layer set to print in red with dashed lines..  I provide HVAC duct designs as part of my plan so I have all the supply trunks on the layer that print in green and all my return trunks print on a layer that is set to print in red with dashed lines. There are literally countless possibilities as how you might want to use them.  Hope this helps!