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[GregG]

I am working on a complicated wall/plan relationship.

I wanted to rotate the result and put into diferent layers where I can play with the scales in order to produce blowups of a part of plan and elevation in one sheet.

Here is the part I like about the concept: It saves a great deal of time. Just like the old days of going to the xerox machine and coping a part of the drawing, blowing it up and puting it on a sheet of design drawings

[Guest]

You can use Layer linking for this.

Then unlock the layers and move the individual layers around on the screen.

You can link more than one layer link layer to a separate layer link.

If you do this, unlock the link by going to Edit, Unlock.

You can then move the various groups of links around on the page. \

You can also go to the linked layers and do a Convert Copy to Polygons of the elevation views. That will create a group of polygons representing what you see on the screen.

You can then cut those and paste them in another layer to meet your layout needs.

[GregG]

All this helps a great deal.

However, I still have one problem. When I break up from the layer link to use a part of the drawing i.e. file, all of a sudden I lose the ability to draw in one place and have all the other drawings & details updated at once. I need to go into every one and change it to the latest version. Not good if I need to minimize the amount of time on tproducing the design documents.

What you suggest almost works but still no cigar.

Thanks for the reply.

[GregG]

P.S.

Katie,

Can I send you a TIFF image of what I am trying to accomplish?

Greg

[Guest]

Sure.

Just to let you know in advance, I might not be able to get to it until tomorrow. I have about 12 files here I am looking at.

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