Mini-CAD: Drawing and selection layers

Define preferences according to your requirements for working on the various layers. After clicking the "Layers" icon the following dialog box opens:

Open

All subsequent objects are drawn on the layer selected as "Active drawing layer". Objects pasted from the clipboard are also inserted in the selected drawing layer.

Objects on the layer defined as the "Current selection layer" can be selected and moved using the left mouse button or by opening the object editor using the right mouse button. It may make sense to define a certain selection layer, if a number of objects are closely spaced or overlap and are therefore difficult to mark using the mouse.

The current drawing and selection layers are displayed in the program's status bar:

= drawing layer: Layer 2/selection layer: All layers

By activating the "Selection layer = drawing layer" check box, the selection layer is automatically adjusted when changing to the next higher or lower drawing layer. This can be done very quickly using the "Up one layer" and "Down one layer" icons.