Ensuring Layer Settings Persist After Ortho Updates in AutoCAD

[benjamin-cabrera]

Hello everyone,

I’m encountering an issue similar to what has been discussed here (Layer control within ortho viewports), where layer settings are lost or reset following updates to orthographic views from a 3D model. This forces repeated manual adjustments, which is highly inefficient.

Challenge:

After executing updates to orthographic views (triggered by changes in the corresponding 3D model), settings like layer visibility, thaw/freeze states, and other configurations are reset across all ortho views. This issue requires users to reset these configurations manually for each view, a process prone to errors and inefficiencies.

I am looking for insights or proven strategies that might help in ensuring that layer settings persist through orthographic updates. How have you managed to maintain or automatically restore these settings after updates? Any advice or examples of using AutoCAD APIs for such purposes would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for any tips or experiences you can share to help overcome this challenge!

[ActivistInvestor]

I'm not that familiar with plant 3D so I can't say for sure but it would seem that rather than updating viewport objects it is replacing them with new ones. That's really the only explanation for the cause of your problem.

Can it be fixed? Sure it can, but it would involve a lot of intricate coding that watched for an update operation and saved all of the relevant settings from the viewport that is being replaced and then transferred them to the viewport that replaces it.