{"id":384,"date":"2007-09-11T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2007\/09\/11\/autocad-2008-copy-to-layer\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T00:34:00","slug":"autocad-2008-copy-to-layer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2007\/09\/autocad-2008-copy-to-layer\/","title":{"rendered":"AutoCAD 2008 &#8211; Copy to Layer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/caddmanager.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/LayerCopy2-783535.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/caddmanager.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/LayerCopy2-783534.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Next on our tour of the Layer II toolbar is the CopytoLayer command.<\/p>\n<p>Click the command and then select a layer that you want to copy onto another layer.  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