Hello,
I'm experiencing an issue with a drawing which consists of 3 separate DWGs xrefed together.
The 3 DWGs are as follows:
- BUILDING GND - this is the base building layout
- FA GND - This is a drawing specifically for fire alarm information
- Gnd Zone 1 - this is the drawing that pulls the other two drawings together and has layouts for printing.
I have 2 layouts on 'Gnd Zone 1' which I want to plot.
The first layout is to show the permanent fire alarm system, and there are certain layers on the xref files which I want to plot and certain ones which I don't. For example, I don't want the layer 'FA GND|Fixfire - Westwood Temp Devices 2025' (which is on the FA GND dwg) to plot on this layout. Therefore, I've VP Freezed this layer in this layout. However, when I actually plot this layout to pdf, the 'Fixfire - Westwood Temp Devices 2025' layer is still visible.
The second layout is to show the temporary fire alarm system, and again there are certain layers which I don't want to plot such as 'FA GND|E674G4-FA-ZONES', and 'BUILDING GND|GAPL E-COMMS'. Again, the layers which I don't want to plot are coming out visible on the pdf.
See below screenshots:
Layout 1 - what it should look like (magenta layer is a non-plotting layer):
Layout 1 - what it looks like when plotted - green mleaders and symbols shouldn't be visible:
Layout 2 - what it should look like:
Layout 2 - what it looks like when plotted:
To summarise, it seems like all xrefed layers are plotting, regardless of whether VP Freeze is selected. I only want the layers which are not VP Freezed to plot on the respective layouts.
See attached DWGs.
Glad of anyone's suggestions on this.
P.S. I have found a workaround, which is to open up the xrefed file and actually turn off the layers you don't want to plot. But this is a pain, because you have to keep turning layers on and off whenever you want to print a different layout.
