Workgroup Reference

[Assembly]

I'm hoping I am wrong on this.

I have a detail file that workgroup references a sections file.

I updated the layer names of the section file.

I open up the Detail file with the WK refs in it.

The View Ports have disappeared.

I can understand maybe the view port losing the Layer control but to disappear!

Luckily a Time Machine back up and reverting my layer names means I have not lost to much time.

Is this fixed in 2011?.

[Dieter @ DWorks]

If you rename layers, you'll have to edit the layer visibilities in the referenced viewport. I think in your case, there where no more layers visible in your viewport because of the rename, and then it dissepears?

[Pat Stanford]

I don't think so. If you remove all the layers (or classes) from a viewport I think it reverts to a red box with an X through it.

I don't know what would cause the viewports to disappear.

[Assembly]

I think this maybe just an issue with the files I'm working on.

I created two new clean files and recreated the same situation.

Draw object on Layer-1 in WkOut.

Create WkVP in WkIn File.

I change layer name in WkOut file

Update the WkIn File-

I get error message: An error occurred while updating from the referenced document "WkOut.VWX"

The viewport changes to the empty red box and does not disappear.

The file I'am having trouble with is over 70mb, It has 64 Design Layers and 24 Sheet Layers. The viewports are defiantly being deleted. I can open the original on another computer where the WkRef path is broken. I can see all the detail VP I set up. I can check the VP List on that computer. When I update the WkRef, some VP are removed from the list. The files include my own custom PIO's. Thus I can not rule out these being the cause of the problem.

[Bob Holtzmann]

I've had viewports disappear on me in VW 2008 -- it usually happened when I was plotting a set of drawings. Fortunately they were still in the file -- I just tweaked class visibilities in the Nav Palette, or went to the Workgroup Ref listings to update them, and saw them reappear. Other times it could have been the viewports were on a class that was turned off somewhere.

I've seen my viewports behave much better in 2010 and 2011.