Changing mechanical layer to architectural.

[Infoseeker]

I am using Autocad Mech, when I am creating new layer, by defaulf it is mechanical layer. How do I change it to architectural layer?

[pendean]

arch layer?

[dmfrazier]

Since this is a Mechanical-specific question, you might get more helpful responses here:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Mechanical-General/bd-p/39

And here is a link to 2013 Help (which might help):

http://docs.autodesk.com/AMECH_PP/2013/ENU/filesACM/GUID-47A5B7C1-339D-4656-8FDC-AC8D8B73190F.htm

Here's another that might be more helpful:

http://docs.autodesk.com/AMECH_PP/2013/ENU/filesACM/GUID-BC6E1953-6745-42E8-9DC8-DD940F0E2043.htm

[Infoseeker]

I need the top layer to change the icon so it looks like the bottom layers icon. In the simplest words. Lol.

[dmfrazier]

Which command are you using to create the new layer?  Is it AMLAYER or LAYER (or something else)?

[Infoseeker]

I do it from layers manager. Right click? New layer.

[dmfrazier]

Yes, but it's important to know exactly which command is running when you do this.  Look at the command line (turn it on if necessary).

[JoAnn_Hogan]

You can turn on your command line by simply typing the word "Command" <Enter>

Are you using the Mechanical profile or AutoCAD Vanillia? 

[dmfrazier]

"You can turn on your command line by simply typing the word "Command" <Enter>"

Hmmm.  When I do that (in 2013), I get "unknown command" (since "command" is actually not a valid native command in 2013).  Though, I suppose if you have Auto-complete/Auto Append (or whatever it's now called) turned on, then typing "command" might actually execute "commandline" (which is the correct native command).

(Editorial comment for a Friday morning: Isn't it wonderful that we have all this flex-ability to "personalize" our software so that it can look and behave differently for each user and make providing support that much more "exciting" and "challenging"?  Maybe this makes me sound like a "dinosaur", but I think there's a certain value in consistency and standardization.  But, life goes on, things must change, new copies must be sold, the new features are always better than the old ones, more profits must be made... Sorry.)

Oh, and by the way, the question about the profile is a good one, but it may be answered by the answer to the question about which "layer manager" command the OP is actually running.