Managing layer/class visibilities in viewports

[ratherfishing]

Hi,

I have been using VWX for a pretty long time and use it all day everyday. Since day two or three I have found it very slow to manage visibilities of classes and layers in viewports. 

In WYSIWYG and many other softwares, it is very easy to create scenes or other sets of visibilities, and then use the scene in viewport. If I create a new layer, I can include it in scene and be sure it will be visible in all viewports/plots using that scene. I can also pretty much know how the plot is going to look like from design views without navigating to sheet. In VWX managing classes and layers is a separate operation from design phase. 

 

In my dream, I would have a scene/saved view called "Rigging+Roof+Data Tags", containing visibility-settings. I would then use it to draw and redifine it as I go. The plot using this scene/view would update its visibilities automatically and be ready when I want to print.

 

How you all, my dear fellow-users are tackling this? Are class/layer strcutures so fixed that this is not an issue? I see it doing the trick, but it would mean a huge template file, and I like to keep my templates as simple and small as possible and scale up only if needed.

 

I know about organisation dialog, visibility tool, trick to do viewport and use eyedropper, and various scripts somewhat tackling this issue. They help, but not enough for me. 

 

Thanks all!

[Tamsin Slatter]

It sounds like you are looking for a Viewport Style. After setting up your viewport as you want it, on the Object Info palette, click the Style pop-up menu and choose to save the style. Then you can drop it onto any viewport. And keep it in your library ready to use in any file. 

And use Saved Views to set up the desired visibilities for the design phase.

[ratherfishing]

Thanks!

I have tried that as well. It is a possibility, but I still have to configure Saved View when drawing, and Viewport Style on sheet layer side. No way to sync them, so I have to manually add/fix visibilities.