Levels - why do they constantly unhide themselves and move around?

[gnarkill283]

I've noticed on multiple projects, I have to hide the same levels over and over again as well as re-position them over and over again. What causes levels to do this? Can moving the levels alignment to a view change the alignment in another view? Does unhiding it in a view cause it to show in another view? It's really annoying to say the least.

[RobDraw]

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@gnarkill283 wrote:

Can moving the levels alignment to a view change the alignment in another view?

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Absolutely, yes.

As to your visibility issues, those are probably self induced as I've never seen that.

[barthbradley]

@gnarkill283: are you talking about dependent views? 

[ToanDN]

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@gnarkill283@gnarkill283 wrote:

I've noticed on multiple projects, I have to hide the same levels over and over again as well as re-position them over and over again. What causes levels to do this? Can moving the levels alignment to a view change the alignment in another view? Does unhiding it in a view cause it to show in another view? It's really annoying to say the least.

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Stretching the 3D extent (circle grip) of a grid or a level will affect every view.  Stretching the 2D extent (small dot grip) of those will not.

[chrisplyler]

Purely a guess at a possibility, but...

Are Worksets enabled in your project? Are Grids and Levels part of a dedicated Workset? Do you have control of that Workset? Maybe every time you're syncing with the central file the changes you've made locally are being discarded?

Like I said, just a wild guess.

[aleksei.tkachenko]

Hello

If you want your levels to behave the same way all over the project, you can attach them to scope box. See how it works for Grids.

However if you're planning to have several views with special displacement of levels, you have to adjust all manually, using for example "Propagate Extents" button in order to copy displacement of some levels from one view to another. And when you do so, you need to be sure that levels aren't extended to 3D,  as @ToanDN describes, otherwise you will move the level in all views.