Layers manager

The Layers manager is a tool to control the layers defined in a project. The Layers manager provides for creating, editing and deleting of layers.

The manager itself uses the same "manager philosophy" as other SCIA Engineer managers do. It contains control buttons for standard manager operations:

New	It creates a new layer. The new layer is created with default properties that may be later edited.
Edit	It opens an editing dialogue where the layer’s properties may be changed.
Copy	This function creates a copy of the selected layer.
Delete	It removes the selected layer from the project database.
Undo / Redo	It performs an Undo or Redo operation.
Text Output	It opens a small document window with a table that summarises properties of selected layers.

In order to open the Layers manager use either menu function Tools > Layers or tree menu function Tools > Layers.

The Layers manager can also be opened from various property dialogues that contain item Layer. Such an item contains a button to open the Layers manager.

Displaying and hiding a layer

The Layers manager also enables the user to specify which layers should be visible and which ones should be hidden.