Un linking layers in 9.0

[jhubbell]

How do you unlink layers

[MikeB]

Select the layer link.Go to the Edit MenuSelect UnlockHit Delete

Good Luck

[FRED JOHNSON]

Not to be dense, but I have never quite understood this either... what is "select layer link"? exactly or specifically WHAT is being selected?

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[MikeB]

Best I can describe it a layer link is like a shadow. It has the size and shape of the origional layer and will change with the origional layer but it is not an editable object. You can move the layer link around but you cannot edit anything included in the link, you have to edit the source layer.

So the link itself is only a representation of the information being linked.

I don't know if that helps or makes sense, but I've found layer links incredibly useful, particularly in 3-D modeling.

Good Luck

[TiTaNiuM sAMuRai]

You might also think of layer linking as a tool with some of the 'Class x on/off", 'Layer x on/off' features of a saved sheet, but you're not forced to revert to any particular view of the objects you want to see.

[CipesDesign]

A layer link is an object made up of other objects. For example, if you have a layer for your main level plan and a layer for your upper level plan, you can link the two in a third layer. The object that is generated is the "link". Careful when ungrouping and changing stuff in a link, those changes will not occur in the original layers. I usually like to go into the original layers to make changes, which WILL be reflected in the linked layer. Hope this helps. PLC