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Drawing Layers are Driving me CRAZY!!!!

Drawing Layers are Driving me CRAZY!!!!

Drawing Layers are Driving me CRAZY!!!!

(OP)
Can anyone help me out here with some drawing layer problems???

I'm working on a relatively small assembly (10 or so components).  There are 4 parts that I've recieved from a customer. In these parts the layers are totally whacked. The rest are my parts with layers that make sense (at least to me).

I'm not having any problems controlling the layers in the part or assembly modes, but things are all screwed up in the drawing!!!

I've got one sheet with a general view and a few projections off to each side.  I'm trying to blank out all of the surface layers because there are a lot of surfaces that are cluttering up the screen.

I've set the active object in the layers menu to "The Drawing", "Drawing View", "Top Level Assy", and "Part" and have blanked all the layers (including all of the layers that have surfaces in them).

Everything's fine for the projected views (i.e. the layers are blanked)... But in the general view, I can STILL see the surfaces!!!

What's going on here? I've tried refreshing the screen, regenerating, etc. and nothing helps.

I even created a new layer "all_surfs" and added all the quilts to that layer and blanked it as well.... Still, it's not helping.

RE: Drawing Layers are Driving me CRAZY!!!!

(OP)
Never mind.... I seem to have figured it out...

I guess the layers weren't set on the main view after all...

However, shouldn't the Drawing layer settings override individual view layer settings?

RE: Drawing Layers are Driving me CRAZY!!!!

Sometime is better just to delete all the layers from drawings and parts received from customers, and create your own. Some people like to have hundreds of layers, and you need plenty of time just to figure out what are those layers for.

im4cad
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http://www.cadproe.com/pds/home.asp

RE: Drawing Layers are Driving me CRAZY!!!!

sundevil98,

As for your second question, I believe once you select Drawing View as your Layer level, it becomes independent of the Drawing (I guess that is the purpose of having a pick for it!)...

RE: Drawing Layers are Driving me CRAZY!!!!

Answer to the second question -->  same as noppenbd.  The View's layer overrides the drawing's layer setting.
This is the main reason why I will avoid using View layer settings at all costs.  They can waste your time when trying to figure out the layer settings of a drawing.

I have helped many persons at my company with this very same issue.  My suggestions is not to use View layer settings -- only as a last resort.

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