Layout deficiency example

[lander (CAD CAM CNC)]

I’ve been noticing more enthusiasm this year and last year, on how Rhino might be better than ever, in terms of being able to provide the user the ability to lay out a plan or blue print like interface where GD&T’s can be illustrated and disseminated to others for manufacturing purposes etc.

But here’s an example where Rhino is deficient in this regard:

1.) let’s say I want to create a file, and in this file is and assembly of 3 parts
2.) and I might want to have a layout for each part, hence 3 layouts let’s say
3.) then at some point I might have the details of each part on their corresponding layers
4.) but from time and time again I might turn the details of one part on or off via their particular layers
5.) and then thus their layout is invisible!

so frustrating

If only layers were somehow linked to layouts. Maybe I’m missing something…

[dale (Dale Fugier)]

Learning Rhino Layouts

There are existing tutorials that were done in Rhino 7 and Rhino 8. The Rhino 7 workflow also works for Rhino 8 and Rhino 8 Mac as well. The Layout configuration work flow is covered in the Level 1 Training Guide here. In Rhino type Tutorials to get the the tutorials panel. On this panel, pick Level 1, you can double click on the file to which the training guide is directing you. [image] Here is a tutorial that has a fee: 2D Technical Drafting with Rhino | Rhino3D.Education This web s…

[lander (CAD CAM CNC)]

This kinda sounds related:

@mary

There are a few new Rhino 8 features, I look forward to sharing them in a future tutorial. The big improvements I see are separate model layer visibility from the layouts

“separate model layer visibility from the layouts” … hmmm

I use the whole ‘hide in detail’ thing alot to mitigate the issue, but yes if there were ‘separate model layer visibility relative to layouts’ then that might be a game changer.

Because the whole hide detail / show detail thing becomes high maintenance. If layouts could be linked to layers, then different layouts relative to different layers would be much more efficient to maintain. Unless I’m still missing something I’ll try to study that class video and any others that might help.