Can anyone recommend a work flow process for this? The following explains what I am trying right now, but if you have a better suggestion, please let me know.
At the moment I am trying to follow a similar process that I used at AECOM using autocad:
- each detail is drawn in its own file.
- each detail is then referenced into a sheet file in model space (so multiple files referenced in)
- there was an easy command to click on that referenced file and open the original for editing
- Detail titles are done in the sheet file model space
- the sheet file paper space holds the title block info and is what gets printed.
Trying to replicate this in VW:
- each detail is drawn in its own file. (using layers, not classes, because that's what my boss uses, possibly this is complicating matters)
- I have a "sheet file" set up ready to reference each detail file into.
- I have title block info set up on a sheet layer for this sheet file
- now, how do I reference in the detail files?
I tried:
!. referencing in the detail files using “Layer Import”, but:
- it brings in everything, not just the area I want.
- all the detail files have the same layers, since they are all from a template, and VW won’t import multiple layers with the same name.
2. referencing in viewports from the detail files, with the “design layer viewports” setting in the referencing dialogue box, and then creating a viewport with the detail file as a source. But
- it brings in everything, not just the area I want.
- I can’t change the crop to narrow down to the area I want.
Is there a way to just reference in a viewport from the original detail file?
thanks!