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How to change layer states on every layout tab

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How to change layer states on every layout tab

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Hi,

Recently I have been working on a few older files at my work and I noticed in the layer properties that VP Freeze has been activated on certain layers in certain layout tabs. I know for a fact that no one at work has edited these files recently so I have no clue how it was turned on. This also extends to the different layer states used in the drawing as well. Is there any way to turn off the VP Freeze attribute globally for all layer states in all layout tabs?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Kellen

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cadffm
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Really layouts(paperspace) or to the layout-viewports?

There is no onboard command to do this, you need full autocad and a third part program.

 

And: Layerstates are not associated with viewports, so you need a rule (special viewport property, or by layout name pattern..) that the program know which viewport should use which layerstate.

Sebastian

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pendean
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VPLAYER command has a VPNEW tag you can place on new layers to prevent them from showing up in viewports created afterwards: same in LAYER command's VPNEW column.

Or someone never did what you wanted in the old files.

Or you have a new routine or process being used that changed certain layer settings.

Or your newer imported LAYERSTATES do things differently from the old LAYERSTATES used back in the day in those old files.

Layer settings never change on their own in old files no one has ever touched before you (assuming they were perfect to start with): never.


Do you need help rectifying those viewports? Or you got this one? Let us know.



dbroad
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This is more of an AutoCAD rather than an AutoCAD Architecture issue, but, if you have ACA drawings, then I wouldn't willy nilly go round diddling with viewport layer settings because that is how ACA's Project Navigator enables selective display of different model space views from different view drawings in the same sheet file.  Of course PN sheets default to a single layout per drawing model rather than multiple layouts per drawing.

 

If you want to risk completely messing up the drawings, you can automate the modification of VP specific settings but I would discourage it. 

 

As @cadffm said, there is no link between a layer state and a viewport such that changing settings in a layer state would affect viewports or layouts that use that layer state.  In an architectural office, modifying drawings that had been released could cause big problems unless those drawings had been archived.

Architect, Registered NC, VA, SC, & GA.
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Anonymous
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I can rectify the viewports myself, thanks for the info Pendean!

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