Hopefully you can read my other reply (or you think me mad) which offers
some simple lisp to achieve this in an automatic fashion.
Do you know lisp? Open the file and you can see it's quite simple and you
could try to adjust it to suit your layer key styles.
One thing I failed to mention is that you also need to add a display rep
copy for each Rep type you are going to use for each level.
This was very simple to do. e.g. I use Presentation and I went into the
Display Manager, to configurations and copy pasted the presentation DR.
Natural rename is Presentation (2) which is works great (level 2). Then
simply go into this and change the cutplane adding the total of FL to FL
from 1 to 2 levels. Everything else can remain the same.
When you issue the F1 or F2 command, the option will pop up to ask which DR
you want. Unfortunately the commands are just not available to do this
automatically (i.e. command line) that I know of.
For my purposes, I only need the Presentation, medium detail (CD's) and
Reflected (electrical layouts) to be copied as such but you may need other
(structural?). I try to stay with OOTB schemes.
The other item that needs to be changed is for your std wall style to have
it's cutplane overridden to be as per style so that when on level 2 it will
display correctly (i.e. override the global cutplane). I do this once in my
std styles as all other styles are have no style overrides (except special
styles like cabinets etc which have their own cutplanes overrides). All
this should be in your template file or would need to be added/changed to
each file. (You can import Display Reps by opening a drawing and
drag/dropping).
I created an undercroft house just before the break and was dissapointed
that ACA cutplanes can't go into the negative so I had to lift my whole
house so the undercroft was level 1 instead of 'z'! But after lifting
everything it works fine. About to add a loft as level 3.
I have some other ideas but haven't fully expored them. You can use layer
snapshots but they won't add a newly created layer so I'm not sure how
they'd work. Also Layer states which are I think the newer version thru the
layer manager. You can add wild cards here ie. the A-*-FL2 etc but I've
not been able to figure it out.
Altogether I would not think it very successful if you had to do all the
changes manually thru the layer manager like you suggest. I can send a file
to you personally if you'd like a quick look at how well this all works.
I've been wanting to do it this way for years and am excited about how
easy/simple in the end it was to implement.
HTH's
Cheers
"Nick Haury" wrote in message
news:6311416@discussion.autodesk.com...
This I know, I've set up LKO for FLR0, FLR1, FLR2. But how do I switch
between them? Do I go to the layers properties and turn off all layers then
switch to the status I want, ie, FLR1, then turn on all of those layers
layers, or is there a easier way to switch between them?
--
Nick
"David_W._Koch" wrote in message news:6311413@discussion.autodesk.com...
> Assuming your Layer Standard has a four-character Status field, you can
> either set up a separate Layer Key Style for each floor level and set the
> appropriate Status field value in the Layer Key Style and then switch to
> the proper Layer Key Style for the floor on which you are working -OR- set
> a Layer Key Override for the Status field when working on a level other
> than the one specified by the Status field in the Layer Key Style.
>
> The latter is less work to set up and to maintain; both require you to be
> aware when you are changing to a different level and reset something
> (Layer Key Style or Layer Key Override). Given that, the Layer Key
> Override is probably the way to go.
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