Thursday, October 18, 2012
NOPRINT
In AutoCAD, I use layers with abandon.
I also use paperspace, which lots of people don't.
I have a layer with .50 lineweight that I use for drawing borders on A-size sketches. But for some reason when I put a "viewport" on that layer, it doesn't come out as a nice heavy line. So I have to put a "rectangle" on the page to get the border the way I want.
Long story short, I ended up setting my "viewport" layer so that it does not print.
That worked for a while, couple years maybe. But I found that there were sometimes things other than viewports that I wanted not to print. Notes to myself about the job, for example. So I set up a layer named NOPRINT. Eventually I started putting viewports on the NOPRINT layer, like any other thing I didn't want to print. So then I didn't need to create the "viewport" layer anymore.
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I also have a button to use before I plot a drawing, that lists the blocks I put on the NOPRINT layer. (Sometimes I forget to change the layer before I insert blocks.)
That's a useful button. I'll put up the code in a post... as soon as I get around to it.
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