Two Viewports export into one, all classes and layers on

[Damon Design]

We are working with consultants on what will be several (small T.I.) projects with which we will be needing to use the same standards in importing and exporting files from our VW based office.

We have experimented with one project file that for the most part we have been unsuccessful in retaining the two separate viewports on the one sheet layer; importing to VW from ACAD works fine (very small T.I., two design layers, one with the data (with a "name" that is just a bunch of numbers) and one standard, empty DL created from VW automatically, one sheet layer with one floor plan and one RCP viewport arrayed vertically on the sheet named "24x 36 Full Sized" created from the "layer" visibility settings from the one plan on the DL where all the info is messily together on just one plan- standard stuff.

Just testing the export process from the one sheet layer back into ACAD gives us just the one messy plan with everything turned on, as it looks in the DL as opposed to the two separate VPs with layer visibility settings invoked. But once, somehow, we stumbled onto some setting that through the export process from VW to ACAD created two viewports, arrayed horizontally with the floor plan data on one side and just the RCP layer data on the other side (no floorplan data), as if it were a 72x24 sized sheet (this is actually a result that we, and our consultants could work with just fine). Exporting that file back into VW results in one newly created design layer in that format, named "24 x 36 Full Sized" with the two VP like blocks of data identified as symbols (original layers gone). Very odd. On that file I think I did some >Edit VP from Sheet Layer>Modify>Symbol into Group on the DL to try some experiments and some other fiddling because the one remaining Sheet Layer is named "24 x 36 Full Sized-2", but cannot remember exactly what I did- the sheet layer retains the two vertically arrayed viewports, but that format doesn't seem to export.

Long question but ultimately what settings do we need to maintain the two separate viewports when exporting back and forth-

Sorry for the long description but any help would be apprecitated.

(P.S. In a new dream job because of my VW skills so this would really put a gold star on my contributions here!)

Thanks

[Damon Design]

Well we are still unsure as to how exactly we managed to get the split off and horizontally arrayed viewports on the one export from VW to DWG but have managed the import and exports to achieve the look and data representation we can work with.

Still a bit of a process to delve into the world of ACAD organization with so many objects large and small and even the viewports when going back into them in the Design Layer having been turned into symbols in VW.