1.) It appears that when layers are turned off in model space (ease of workflow) they need to be turned back on in layouts in order to appear in a detail. In Nov 14 dmackeyd asked: “Layout layers may be turned on/off only if the model layer is active. This becomes an annoyance when working with both…

From a work flow standpoint- we’re in a position where we need to turn on all of the model layers when we switch to layouts, then when we return to model space, turn off all of the layers we just turned on. If these settings were independent of one another, substantial amounts of time could be saved…

As long as you have a stable set of layers, the Layer State Manager can be used for this.

We’ll give that a shot - I know a few colleagues have had issues (bugs) with the Layer State Manager in the past. Holistically, I think there is significant value to having the layer controls (model vs. layout) independent of one another in any/all applications. If there are instances in which the o…

That’s what this forum is for. A public discussion of how things work, why, and how than may be improved. I’m a little surprised no one else has chimed in either way yet, but it is a Summertime Friday.

Well, I could imagine a layer manager that showed a layer state in model space and a different layer state in layout space. That is to say that the two coexist in the same panel and come up automatically depending on which space you are currently in - for example if you were on a layout page, but w…

[image] charliev: 2.) Minor question, but along those same lines - when the model layers are turned back on in layouts, the thumbnails of the layouts (on the left) do not update leading one to believe that nothing has changed. When you click on the layout itself, it does show the correct detail …

@dan It’s not quite there yet. The thumbnails all show it correctly when switching a layer off, but only the current page shows it coming back on. Max.

I see what you mean. I can see where toggling the visibility of a model layer that is shared across many layouts and not seeing the thumbnail update is rather jarring. Looking at MR-2776 here (sorry, it was not visible to the public until just now; an oversight on my part). It looks like this beh…

@maxz I explicitly set up both the current behavior and the previous behavior just for you. Really. Thumbnails do eventually get updated, just not immediately. I limit how often thumbnails are updated to improve overall performance. Remember this thread? Layouts slow down drafting In the modeli…

@Marlin : I do remember that thread and I really appreciate that you went through that trouble just to help me, but I am not the one that started this thread, @charliev mentioned it. I merely reported my findings on @dan ’s request. Since version 5.3 layouts are not opened automatically on startup, wh…

Layer Control in Layouts & Thumbnail Update

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dan (Dan) March 1, 2017, 12:23am 15

This behavior should be somewhat better in the latest RhinoWIP (5E41w). Please give it a try…hopefully those thumbnails update when the layout layer change.

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