Help me understand layouts in V8

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  1. The documentation here mentions “title blocks” but just links to regular blocks. How does one make a title block which has fields which can be edited?
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  2. The above page also mentions “scale bars”. Where do you get these? How does one even get the scale from the properties panel into the layout (and have it update if you change the scale)?
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  3. How do you change the paper color in a layout to white when “Print Preview” is on?
  4. Why does the detail color change depending on zoom?
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  5. Why doesn’t the print preview reflect what actually gets printed? (Technical display mode on the detail to the left and the dots get turned into dashes in the PDF on the right and there’s objects visible which aren’t shown in the layout.)
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  6. I get confused about display mode and object properties when it comes to linetype and layouts, because Technical display mode (which can be set per detail/object) seemingly affects the linetype of certain (hidden) lines, but I can’t find a detail/object way to change the linetype independent of other layouts/views (and I can’t find the setting to adjust the hidden linetype in the Technical display mode either)? This gets even more confusing with hatches, which doesn’t seem to have any awareness of what view/detail they are in.
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  7. Shaded view prints as pixels, even the curves which are the same as wireframe. I guess getting the shaded view to only print the shading as pixels and its curves as curves probably has an 8 year old Youtrack already?
  8. Similarly to the above, if you have a custom display mode which is flat shaded, one would expect everything in the print to still be vector output, not pixels.
  9. Finally, even if the above two items cannot be done today, surely there must be a way to get a layout which has hidden line removal that can print as vector?
  10. Can you set an annotation style per layout?

While writing this, the zoom color bug disappeared… :man_shrugging:

EDIT: Here’s a zoom bug to replace the one which disappeared… the moment I zoom, my hatch turns black. I must enter and exit the detail view, and not zoom in order for it to look the way I expect.

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This bricolage of information reflects the evolutionary history of rhino s approach to drafting / technical drawing

I also see a lack of a single starting point and best practice in RH8 for layouts / documentation / drafting.