topic Re: Multiple sheet in one file layers linked in AutoCAD Forum

Multiple sheet in one file layers linked

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:49:19 GMT

Very odd situation I've never run into. I have multiple sheet files set up in a single file for different phases of a site plan, existing/new/etc. I set up the layout and sheet for the new plan, then copied the tab to create the existing sheet, but for some reason as I go to turn on and off layers, the two sheets are linked somehow. As I turn off the new building, in one, it does it in the other. Never had this happen in the thousands of times I've ever set up files. Any ideas?

thanks, Ryan

Re: Multiple sheet in one file layers linked

BeKirra — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:57:24 GMT

Most likely you turned on/off common layer(s).

Otherwise can you upload a sample drawing?

Re: Multiple sheet in one file layers linked

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:00:22 GMT

Re: Multiple sheet in one file layers linked

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:00:09 GMT

What do you mean turn off common layers? I'm looking at one single layer at the moment that will turn on and off in both sheets.

also the drawing has far too many xrefs for me to bother to upload for you

Re: Multiple sheet in one file layers linked

BeKirra — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:00:24 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
common layers is a command?

No. A common layer means that is used in your multiple drawing sheets.

Re: Multiple sheet in one file layers linked

pendean — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:03:09 GMT

>>>...the two sheets are linked somehow. As I turn off the new building, in one, it does it in the other...<<<
it is the same exact Layout/"sheet" most likely, twice. You make a mistake with a duplication. Dig deeper than what you've stated here in your first post (aka not much?).

Re: Multiple sheet in one file layers linked

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:07:49 GMT

Two sheets, A001 and A002 within the same file. A001 is existing A0002 is new. When I'm in A001 and want to turn off the Proposed building layer, it turns it off in A002 at the same time, with only the one click in A001. A001 was created as a layout copy of A002, but this is how I've always created new tabs for sheets that show the same location in model space, and never had a problem with layers linking between the sheets. They always act separately. So I'm asking if there is something that I may be able to turn off

Re: Multiple sheet in one file layers linked

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:11:12 GMT

I've also tried creating a new layout, totally separate and not copied. And it has the same issue of being linked

Re: Multiple sheet in one file layers linked

BeKirra — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:17:45 GMT

I am afraid we can't help much without seeing your sample drawing.

You can clean up your drawing then upload it here.

Re: Multiple sheet in one file layers linked

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:22:50 GMT

it's not that its not clean, It's a site survey, with multiple xrefs in all sorts of different places, and I'm not spending that time.

Is there any way to make a sheet layout unique? How do you handle different phases of something within the same file other wise

Re: Multiple sheet in one file layers linked

pendean — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:27:30 GMT

Dig even deeper: you probably have that common item(s)/Xref(s) on a wrong layer most likely. Go into modelspace and explore.

Re: Multiple sheet in one file layers linked

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:36:21 GMT

Checked, thats not it. It is a single polyline on a new layer I just created. So it's the only thing on the layer. And the issue is not that I can't find it or can't turn it off, its that it's doing the action in two sheets at once.

additionally, there are other items in the drawing doing the same thing. So it's not a specific layer issue, this building layer was just the first thing I started to do and noticed in the drawing

Re: Multiple sheet in one file layers linked

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:41:27 GMT

I guess I should ask, is this how it's supposed to work? You can not have different layer settings between different sheet in the same drawing file?

Re: Multiple sheet in one file layers linked

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 23:11:43 GMT

ok, thanks