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automatically create a new layer every layout
Sometimes it will be usefull to create automatically a new layer when you create a new layout, bcz its to tedious to do that evety time you create a new layout. I wonder if there is a macro for this, even the macro should set that layer like the actual layer every time you go to that layout.
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You would need a LISP program for that. But I'm wondering why you need to create a new layer when a new layout is created?
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Bcz I use to make up the drawings in the layouts, I put dimensions, texts, sometimes in a layout I like to plot the same layer with differetn thickness, so I copy the layer in the layout layer and I can change the color and other properties without changing the original layer in all the drawing, an I have a control of the drawing bcz I know what I did in every specific layer realted with every layout.
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Hi @Darwin33,
You can use the Action Recorder to create a macro to do this. Or, you can have a template file that you can pull layouts and layers from using Design Center.
Here is a link to a class by Matt Murphy at Autodesk University. It walks through many different ways the Action Recorder can be used. The macros cna even be shared!
Please take a look and let me know if either of these options sounds feasible for your workflow.
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I am probably not understanding your workflow but why not use the VP Color, VP Lineweight, VP Linetype options in the Layer Manager? This allows you to make changes to how elements print without actually changing them.
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I see what you are getting at. But AutoCAD has some great tools for making things look different in different viewports. Please, look into Annotative objects and all the special layer controls that @neaton is talking about. Chances are, you might find that you like this approach a lot better.
Although, It is a different way of thinking about it. I get stuck in my old ways and ways of thinking, so I understand. But seriously take a look at the layer controls for individual viewports, there is no learning curve for that. The layer controls is so cool. As @neaton stated, you can change the Color, Linetype, Linewieght of any layer for individual viewports and it's all in your layer dialog window.
There is a bit of a learning curve with annotative objects, but it's not that hard to learn. Annotative just means that the block or text will change size automatically depending on the scale of the viewport. I don't' know why Autodesk calls that annotative but I don't work there. If you set one scale for that object or text, then it will only display in viewports that are set to that scale.
I hope you don't think I was talking down to you, it's hard to know what someone knows or doesn't know, but if you haven't heard of these before then I think it will change your world. After all of this, I can still see situations that you would need to create a separate layer. For Example: You have two viewports at the same scale but want a dimension to show on one but not the other. So not knowing what exactly your situation is it's hard to say if this other way of thinking would work for you. But to draw line work over again would definitely not be necessary with all the special View Port layer controls.
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Ok, I'm still not sure why an annotation layer needs to be different thicknesses, but hey different strokes I guess. If you need to control the display of layers differently in different viewports, you need to investigate VP layer controls as pointed out by the two above.
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Hi @Darwin33
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Sorry for a delay answer.
I found very interesting the annotative objects, I am a 20 years old user of autocad ( I start with autocad v12) but I never used the annotative objects until this last project. From now on annotative objects will be in my drawings.
REgarding the vplayers I found them also very convenient, but sometimes your workflow demand not only to plot with a diferent thinckness, cchange colors but to draw something to include in the viewport, ie to break a line and make diferents lines from it whith diffferent linestyles, and its very annoying go back to model and make a new layer, specially if you are in a hurry, so you just copye the line in a new layer related to your viewport and break it and do all the modifications you need and that vplayer doesnt supporte. Some times you just need to add new drawings only to a specific viewport, so its very easy to draw that in that viewport layer, you notice all the time that that drawing belong only to that viewport. It might sound very caotic but allows you to have big controI on your drawings and have a fluent workflow without coming back to model , draw another layer, back to paperspace, specially when you are almost done with the project. I am not a layer friendly user, since I started drawing only in one layer, IT took a lot of time to start to use layers, so that may be is the reason for my strange workflow, but it really works. ![]()
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Whatever works for you I guess, but layer control provides ALL the flexibility you need and in the long run is much faster than continually mucking with colors, weights and linetypes.