QCAD Bugtracker

  • Status Assigned
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  • Task Type Feature Request
  • Category QCAD (main)
  • Assigned To
    Andrew
  • Operating System All
  • Severity Low
  • Priority Very Low
  • Reported Version 3.24.0
  • Due in Version Undecided
  • Due Date Undecided
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Attached to Project: QCAD Bugtracker
Opened by Johan Persson - 26.12.2019
Last edited by Johan Persson - 26.12.2019

FS#2018 - Layer visibility setting per view/view-port

In a medium complex drawing it’s often too much details to have all layers in a drawing visible at once. Also, it is of great importance to be able to have a single model to avoid duplication of work and risk inconsistency.

So i would like to create a number of views where each view has selected layers visible (that makes sense for the purpose of the view) and then assign the views to different layout blocks (using view-ports) in paper-space to be able to setup printing of several views on the same page/PDF

This also means that view-ports would have to be aware of what view they are displaying (if any besides the standard-view).
This will then make it possible for printouts of different views with selected layers visible (different for each view and view-port) and still have only one model. Today this is not possible.

As it is today the only limited workaround is to set the layers you want to display, print/PDF of that viewport on separate page, and then change it for the next page, and so on. The big drawback is that you cannot have two different views/view-ports on the same page with different layers visible. Also, for large drawing it is painful to have to do a lot of manual setup for each rendering of the complete drawing.

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Andrew commented on 26.12.2019 17:14

Perhaps layer states could make your life easier already:
https://qcad.org/en/tutorial-working-with-layer-states

Ethan P commented on 05.12.2020 17:11

Layer states is a work-around, but by no means is it a practical solution. If you want to print a multipage drawing set, selectively controling layer on/off states per viewport is absolutely essential.

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