When opened in ACAD the viewport is HUGE compared to the page size.
Trying to understand how this works... In Cooper a person is basically
drawing in paper space through a gigantic viewport. Does that sound right?
So how does this effect the (needed) ability to open any dwg...?
Why not simply open an existing DWG in a layout (one at a time) as selected
at the time of opening and treat it like the current Cooper setup and draw
through the VP. This does create a sticky-wicket if there are several
viewports at different scales...
Saving would save the drawing with a new layout per current view (ie. layer
states) when being saved.
example:
Drawing A when opened in PC would prompt for the layout to be opened>
Layout 1 selected, editing or additions are done through layout 1's
viewport>
Save edited drawing creates Layout 1_Cooper (or whatever naming scheme is
used) with new entities and layer states visible.