To make blueprints easier to understand, traditional drafting employs the use of line weights, arranged by object type or function that differentiated hard and softscape elements, property and utility lines, labels, text, and other objects so that drawings are easy to read and understand.
Layers and Screen Colors
When working with DynaScape Design, drawing and editing is made easier using different screen colors for objects drawn. These colors are assigned to various objects according to what the objects represent, or the function they play in the landscape, and control the layer to which each object on the drawing is assigned. As with traditional drafting, layers are set up with line weight and style information that creates the hierarchy that makes it possible to create outstanding printed plans. Thus, DynaScape Design drawings become easier for your clients to understand.
The Tables menu sets the active drawing layer, facilitates changing objects from one layer to another, makes it possible to override the appearance of a specific object without changing any other object, makes it possible to change the font used in a specific label without altering the default font selection, and most important of all, controls which mode you are working within.
Layers and Modes
Modes group layers so that they can be turned on and off, becoming visible or hidden, to suit specific purposes— i.e., in creating a dimensioned working drawing, the Dimension Mode turns the softscape elements off, so the hardscape is easily seen. Thus, modes become important to the elimination of multiple files needed to create separate types of working drawings.