Copy and link a specific viewport into every layouts

[c.schneiderNDXDQ]

Good afternoon,

I am working on the layout of the site I work to. This is a very heavy file with +100 layers and 20 layouts. Editing anything takes time to my computer so I would like to save time:

On every layout, there must be a simplified overview of the site that is done by deactivating several layers.

What I would like to do is to create one viewport on one layout and copy it in every other layouts, same size, scale, same layers frozen or not, etc.

In this manner, editing one of these viewport would edit all the other ones. For example, freezing a layer from one viewport would also freeze it in all of the copies.

I tried doing this with the "New view" feature, but the result is not what I expect.

Could you please share your knowledge with me? Thanks!

[VincentSheehan]

Could you do the layer managing in model space? If not, you could also write a script to modify viewport layers in each tab.

[cadffm]

Hi,

search for a 3rd party Tool. There is no native command to do this.

For example: I am using a not puiblished tool which uses Layerstates

and my viewports (multiple per layouts) are on different layers.

It's possible to use this tool to applying one layerstate to all viewports on layer "MyLayerForViewports".

I am 100% sure ypu will find such a tool in forum too.

And a tool what is doing the same, but without layerstates, is nearly the same,

so I have hhope you will find such a tool too.

Search with phrases like 

AutoCAD apply layerstate to all layouts

and similar.

[c.schneiderNDXDQ]

Not really because I am using the same objects in so many different viewports but with different layers on or off. Other solution would be to copy only the required objects elsewhere in the model space, which would make my file even heavier, and updating the original objects would also imply updating the copy, which is still extra work and might lead to mistakes...

As for scipts, I am very unfamiliar with this side of Autocad, never done it before...

[c.schneiderNDXDQ]

Thanks for your help, I will take a look at 3rd party tools to see if I can find one that suits me.

[VincentSheehan]

Scripts are written as if you type the commands in the command line. They are saved as a *.scr file. Below is an example. Just repeat for each tab as shown. I use Notepad to write it but it might be easier to set it up in Excel if you have a lot of layers.

LAYOUT
SET
YOUR TAB NAME
_.MSPACE
'_.VPLAYER
FREEZE
YOUR LAYER NAMES


_.PSPACE
LAYOUT
SET
YOUR TAB NAME
_.MSPACE
'_.VPLAYER
FREEZE
YOUR LAYER NAMES


_.PSPACE
LAYOUT
SET
YOUR TAB NAME
_.MSPACE
'_.VPLAYER
FREEZE
YOUR LAYER NAMES


_.PSPACE
LAYOUT
SET
YOUR TAB NAME
_.MSPACE
'_.VPLAYER
FREEZE
YOUR LAYER NAMES


_.PSPACE

[paullimapa]

You may want to just draw a simple key plan diagram make it into a block and include it in your title block. Then you can always edit the block and it’ll update on all layouts with that title block