I'm not sure I'm following you so I'll just tell you what works for me. I make no claim that it's the most efficient way. In fact, it likely is not given my relative inexperience with ACAD.
I do my design in solids, working in model space. Once I'm happy with it, I switch to one of the layout tabs where my viewport is automatically created. I then switch to model space, staying in the layout tab. I copy my solid and orient (using 3DALIGN, 3DMIRROR, & 3DROTATE) the copies to create my desired views. I then use SOLPROF to create the PV and PH layers. I then go to the layer manager and freeze-in-current-viewport all layers but my border layer and the newly created PV layer. (Occasionally I will explode the PH object and delete the undesired hidden lines and then not freeze that layer but I'm not a big fan of hidden lines, generally.)
Once I've done that, I switch back to paper space and do all my dimensioning from there, making use of suitable dimension styles set up in my original template.