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The snaps run to points on atomic entities inside blocks on invisible layers, if the layer with the block definitions is set visible.

Layers are for grouping. Perhaps there is a better term. In your example, all the walls are grouped on layer walls, etc. The grouping is arbitrary. Layer walls could be broken into layer studs and layer drywall, for example. That would not be conventional, but the conventional way is also arbitrary....

While I certainly agree that Layers and groups are different concepts and not interchangeable. I disagree that I should not use a layer to group the elements of a part, and so does cadtutor.com Basically, layers are the computer equivalent of tracing overlays on a drawing board. And: For example, if...

Here's the problem I'm seeing with the use of blocks: I have a multilayer drawing of an assembly in which each layer represents one part of the assembly. I want to use arrays of blocks on several layers, independently. The blocks are all confined to a single layer, in other words, there are no multi...