Display Layer State in Ribbon (or anywhere else) While Drawing

[mcloughlin]

Is there a way to display the current layer state on the screen while drawing, i.e., as a visible notation, perhaps somewhere in the ribbon?   

Because my drawings must be shown in many scales each, I use many layer states in each drawing and switch between them frequently.  Sometimes I forget which state I last set, and must then break to enter the Layer States Manager and poke around, a mild irritant that I could do without if possible.  

Many thanks.

[michael.robertson]

Any reason you can't use annotation scale? That would solve your problem and always keep all your text in sync (you don't have to remember every layer a piece of text shows up).

[Pointdump]

McL,

How about sticking LAYERSTATE in the Quick Access Menu?

Dave

[rl_jackson]

I'm with MR on this one, why would you have multiple text objects when one could do the job for all scales or a single C3D object label could also do this.

[AllenJessup]

If someone knows a variable that contains the current layer state. You could use MODEMACRO to display it on the status bar.

Allen

[mcloughlin]

Allen Jessup seems closest to solving my query, but no joy yet.  I shall continue to forget my current layer state and then go to the Layer States Manager to find out what I'm really doing.  

Cheers,

McL.

[andrewpuller3811]

Along the lines of daves post.

I was going to suggest putting the layer state combobox on the QAT, but I gave it a try myself and it will not go onto the QAT. Perhaps a bug?

You can add the layer state combobox to a ribbon panel. It is called the layer state gallery in the CUI editor.

See the attached picture.