Copy layers between drawings?

[Lee Rose]

Perhaps I'm being naive. I have just received some revised plans from another department with 5 layers that matter in my drawing. I would like to replace the current layers with copies from the new drawing.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

[michaelk]

You could either reference them in through design layer viewports

or

Set layer visibility to Active Only on the new drawing > Select All > Copy.

in your drawing go to the layer you want > Past in Place.

hth

michaelk

[billtheia]

Sheet Layers or Design Layers?

If Sheet Layers, you can't copy VPs from one drawing to another.

If Design Layers, do as Michael said OR:

Go to Organization dialog

Select Design Layers tab

Click "New" button at bottom left

Click Import Design Layers radio button

Choose source file

Choose desired Design Layers

Click "Import Layer Objects" check-box

Click OK

Note: This only works if the target file does not have layers with the same name as those you are trying to import. If it does, you'll have to delete them first.

It really should be easier than this to move information from one VW file to another. Some kind of "merge" function would be really helpful.