Viewports

[RDS Casa]

Hello,

We are reviewing the way we structure our drawings to see if we can keep the file size down.

We have until now been referencing in whole layers (using the old "Layer import method"). We bring these in from multiple files. then we make a SINGLE deign layer view port which contains layers and control of classes from these multiple files (a grid file, a M&E file, a landscape file etc)

The problem with this is the files quickly become huge.

With the referenced view ports, if we want to achieve the above we have to stack multiple view ports on top of each other. Controlling visible classes becomes a nightmare, and its very difficult to select the right view port. Then one moves a bit in error, and it all breaks down.

The only other way we can find of doing this is to bring multiple referenced viewports into a holding layer, then make a design layer view port of this. but its quite chore, and you end up with loads of the "holding" layers.

Can anyone offer advice on this> am I missing a trick?

Thanks