layout and visible layers

Good day all,

below is a description of how I think this should work,

build a model, position it, turn on or off layers you want or don't want to be seen, create a new layout...

then reposition, change layers and so on, create a new layout, maybe zoom in on a detail, create another layout and then export all to a PDF.

my problem is if you change layer visibility it affects all layouts , not what I would expect. Or if you zoom in, it still bases the layout on extent , all though display type does seem to hold on the layout it was set for.

so what would be the proper way of showing only relevant information on several different sheets.

thank you

Tom

Good day all,

 

below is a description of how I think this should work,

 

build a model, position it, turn on or off layers you want or don't want to be seen, create a new layout...

then reposition, change layers and so on, create a new layout, maybe zoom in on a detail, create another layout and then export all to a PDF.

 

my problem is if you change layer visibility it affects all layouts , not what I would expect. Or if you zoom in, it still bases the layout on extent , all though display type does seem to hold on the layout it was set for.

 

so what would be the proper way of showing only relevant information on several different sheets.

 

thank you

Tom

You can set the layer states indivdually to each viewport by just grabbing the viewport and turning off the layers you wish. Make sure though that you do not click the viewport to make it active. Just grabbing it is all you really need to do.

You need to learn about paperspace viewports, soldraw, solview, solprof and freezing layers in a viewport just for starters. After you get a grasp on those, you can learn viewport scaling, zooming and locking. One day you will learn about annotation scales and all will be good.

Search on CADTutor and find the answers.

My apologies. You need to activate the viewport then select the object you wish to turn off.

I am having a bad day today.

this works

build a model, position it, VPFREEZE layers you don't want to be seen, then create a new layout...

Thank you

this works

 

build a model, position it, VPFREEZE layers you don't want to be seen, then create a new layout...

 

Thank you

I have the same question so I searched and reached to this thread.

Is VPFREEZE a command name? My CAD (2010) showed unknown command. Will be happy to share your experience with me.

Buzzard: What do you mean by grabbing? In your next post you have corrected it to activating. I select the VP borderline and tried to turn off a layer but it turned off in MS as well. Will be happy to get more info in this regard.

SLW: I have heard of these commands: soldraw, solview, solprof

I will search them

I just find a solution. What do think about it?

In Layers Properties Manager there is a column in far right which reads: VP freeze. Freezing layers with this column only affects that VP with no effect on MS or other layouts.

I think this is a good solution.