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I have a:

Design Layer (DL1) which I have my boarder plus some other notes on

Design Layer (DL2) with some objects on it

I then take a viewport of DL2 and send to another Design Layer (DL3)

On DL3 I only have DL1 set to visible so it appears in the background along with the acitve layer (DL3). I perfrom some class overrides on the viewport of DL2

I then need to take a viewport of D3 and send it to a sheet layer so I can export a batch PDF.

On the new sheet layer the viewport information looks differnt from the viewport shown on DL3 with class overrides.

Why is this?

I think of viewports as "surveilance cameras" I guess, showing info from another area, this is the case with the Viewport on DL3 showing DL2 but is not the case with the viewport on the sheet layer showing D3.

Am I approaching this in the wrong way?

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For DL1, it sounds as if this should be a sheet layer. This sheet layer would then contain viewport(s) to the stacked layers. Your border would then be on the sheet, possibly with some notes, and annotations and dimesions can go either on a separate layer, or on the annotation area of a viewport.

DL3 would not reference DL1 (in fact DL1 would nolonger exist). I think, in your scenario, DL3 would also go since it would be a viewport on the sheet layer instead

So, I think you would have DL2 containing your model.

A sheet layer containing your title block, some notes and a viewport to DL2, possibly annotated.

There is of course, more than one way to do these things.

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I think of viewports as "surveilance cameras" I guess, showing info from another area,

Never in my wildest ... as an olde school Architect ... always assumed that Viewports are equal to Standard Architectural Sheets ...

not simply live streaming of pedestrian traffic video.

Next time I set up a new CAD file ... i'll put a Viewport camera in the woman's DLayer dressing room ; )

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Cool thanks for that Jeffrey

I have been trying different methods for organizing my drawings (CAD sheets). I have found that having all the information on Design Layers and then using Sheet layers with viewports for the finished sheets good for some things but difficult to work with.

For example with Sheet Layers they are extremely handy because you can Batch export PDFs and batch Print which is great, you can show different scales on one sheet which is great.

The draw backs of Sheet Layers is that in order to achieve the above the sheet layers need to have a scale of 1:1 (or no scale I guess) which means you have to use the annotations mode which is good in some ways but gets a bit clumsy later on. The main thing I dont like is not being able to dimension between 2 viewports. With out using the annotations mode if you have 2 viewports and need to dimension between the 2 you have to go in to the edit DL mode of the viewport which takes you back to the DL but because the option to "Display using viewport attributes" doesnt take in to account class and layer overrides alot of the information is not visible depending on the original class settings.

The method which I have been experimenting with is having the "model" that is walls, roofs, room names etc on a DL then taking a viewport of that info and inserting on another DL, any info that is relevant to one page only (say dimensions) I just draw over the Viewport on the DL, this seems to be working fine the only draw backs so far is that I cant show 2 scale on one page but that can be overcome with layer visibilities. The other is I cant do PDF or print Bachs, instead I have to use save views.

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Currently, sheet layer VPs do not recognize the visibility overrides of classes in DLVPs, especially embedded ones. It is an issue that we are aware of.

That certainly limits the usefulness of DLVPs.

Will this be fixed soon (SP4?)

Can I over ride class attributes with Layer Links?

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