Layer on/off on View Port

[alijahed]

Hi All,

 

Instead of double clicking on the boundary of a viewport and freeze a layer on that specific viewport, is there any quicker way to do the same for other Paperspace tabs at the same time?

[Dadgad]

Do you mean without Freezing it in modelspace?

 

If not, then just Freeze it, instead of Viewport Freezing it.

Then it won't display in any of your viewports.

[alijahed]

Yes without freezing in Modelspace.

[Dadgad]

New Layer VP Frozen in all Viewports?

[alijahed]

Freeze a specific layer in viewports in some of the Modelspace tabs.

[RobDraw]

There isn't any other way to tell AutoCAD which viewport unless you have that particular viewport active.

[ReMark]

How about the ._Vplayer command? You would have to invoke it while in a layout not in model space (at least that's the way I think it would work).

[alijahed]

Thanks Gents.

 

I think we all are on the same page there isn't any quick solution for it yet.

 

I was hoping that like the sheet manager we have access to a platform which gives us the flexibility to manage our Viewports from the back-end.

 

Anyway that's the way it is for now apparently.

[JonathonHull]

Hi,

 

 

Is there a way where I can have layers inside layers?

 

 

For example, If I have an "electrical layer", then inside this layer I could have "Powerlines", Underground Power", "Generator Supply", etc...

 

 

Hopefully this is possible.

 

 

Thanks in advance!

Jonathon

[MSasu]

Welcome to the Forum, JonathonHull!

 

You may want to look to layer filters - define a new one named "Electrical" and name the layers using a prefix (i.e. "Electrical - Powerlines", "Electrical - Underground Power", "Electrical - Generator Supply"). To create the filter use "Electrical*" for name.

[JonathonHull]

Thank you Mircea!

 

 

I tried this, but when I print to *.pdf format, it does not have the layers inside layers (ideally I would like to use the file in *.pdf for a presentation.

 

 

Do you know if there is another way possible to work with as *.pdf?

 

 

Kind regards,

Jonathon

[MSasu]

I don't know how/if you can achieve such thing from AutoCAD. Is this feature available in PDF file format? If yes, then may want to look for a tool to edit the PDF after export.

[alijahed]

Cool feature you are looking for!

Basically you want to group layers which I like the idea but to my knowledge there isn't such a thing and I have no access to AutoCAD at the moment to check the Layer Manager.

Add it to Autodesk wishlist.