There are times when you need to know information about an object in your drawing such as its layer, elevation, or direction and distance. The Drawing Inspector provides a quick and easy way to gather information about drawing entities on the fly. Simply turn on the Drawing Inspector using the Inquiry pull-down menu, then hover your mouse over any entity. Soon the information you require will be displayed in a tooltip next to your mouse location.
This command is available in any of the Civil Suite products (Survey, Civil, Hydrology, and GIS), or Takeoff. It works in both software installed on the AutoCAD platform or the IntelliCAD platform. By default, it will display the layer an object resides upon in the tooltip, but you can change the type of information shown using the right-click context menu.
