Lett Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 Can anyone tell me if it it possible to reference only part of a layer. I know you can reference an entire layer to another document, but I have a situation where I have a key plan of a very large building with three seperate additions. I only want to reference the areas where the additions are. If I reference the whole layer, then the drawing is going to be about 15 times the size of the actual page. I do not particularly want to have to use "white" polygons to cover the areas on the page I don't want. That seems a little crude. Anyone have any suggestions? Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 Lett, the easiest way I can think of is to create new layers for the additions. They can all exist in the same "Z" space, but would be independantly referenceable (sp?). PLC Quote Link to comment
Davide Posted May 1, 2002 Share Posted May 1, 2002 Right; either you assign specific classes to different buildings so to turn them on and off on the referenced drawing (but this won't save file size and can be awkward organization-wise ) or you create the parts in different layers and layer link them back to one layer that shows it all or to a referenced file that reads just some layers. In VW the approach is the opposite of what usually done in other programs: here you first create the parts and then assembly them in a single place. You cannot easily create the whole thing and dynamically dissect the parts. Quote Link to comment
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