hdI put floor plan at 1:100 & roof plan at 1:250 on the same sheet

[Mat Caird]

How do I put floor plan at 1:100 & roof plan at 1:250 on the same sheet?

Here's the scene; 3 floor building, still in design stage, needs drawings for fundraising.I used the setup assistant and now have 22 iso A1 sized sheets. 1 sheet for each floor plan, 1 sheet for the roof plan, and so on.

I have created a new layer (A3-plans), and on it created a layer link to each floor plan. So now I can print out 1 sheet with 3 floorplans on it - awesome.

There's enough room left over for the roof plan, but at a reduced scale. Because the design is not final, I want to use layer links to show the roof plan on the presentation sheet, not convert copy to polygon...

So I created a new layer at a reduced scale (layer roof-link), and put a layer link to Mod-Roof. Looks good.Switch back to Layer 'A3-plans' and create a layer link to roof-link, and nothing shows up.

So I guess there's two questions here....

1) does VW support 'nested' layer links? (as described above)2) how would you people do the drawing I am attempting?

Thanks for your help in advance

[ionw]

Is there any reason you wouldn't simply make both the 1:100 layer and the 1:250 Layer both visible and print that sheet?

[Mat Caird]

The roof is 'on-top' of the other floors...

I would have to move the mod-roof layer in relation to the floors below...then my perspective wouldn't work, my cross sections etc would all go wrong!

[Davis Design]

copy & paste your roof plan onto a new visible layer and move it around without affecting your linked layers

[Mat Caird]

But then, if the roof plan changes (and it has while I was away at lunch), I have to remember to copy and paste etc again...Not a big issue I suppose...

How do other offices do this?

[George Cocea]

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Originally posted by Mat Caird:

How do I put floor plan at 1:100 & roof plan at 1:250 on the same sheet?

Here's the scene; 3 floor building, still in design stage, needs drawings for fundraising.I used the setup assistant and now have 22 iso A1 sized sheets. 1 sheet for each floor plan, 1 sheet for the roof plan, and so on.

I have created a new layer (A3-plans), and on it created a layer link to each floor plan. So now I can print out 1 sheet with 3 floorplans on it - awesome.

There's enough room left over for the roof plan, but at a reduced scale. Because the design is not final, I want to use layer links to show the roof plan on the presentation sheet, not convert copy to polygon...

So I created a new layer at a reduced scale (layer roof-link), and put a layer link to Mod-Roof. Looks good.Switch back to Layer 'A3-plans' and create a layer link to roof-link, and nothing shows up.

So I guess there's two questions here....

1) does VW support 'nested' layer links? (as described above)2) how would you people do the drawing I am attempting?

Thanks for your help in advance

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1) No

2)Just create another layer with thedesired scale (roof reduced scale), link the roof plan on this layer,and turn it on along with the other layer where you layere linked the floor plans. You can unlockthe layer link after creation to move where desired on the page. You may want to create anew saved sheet with these two layers for easier navigation later.

Hope this helps.

[Mat Caird]

Perfect answer George...Thank you very much!