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Sometimes while drawing in one GTV it becomes necessary to use
a second GTV to, let's say, draw a line or other entity on the active
layer in the first GTV. Example: let's say you're on the first floor
GTV and need to draw a ceiling line on a ceiling layer that is under
a wall above on the 2nd floor GTV. Currently, one must turn on a
certain layer on the 2nd GTV, snap to it, then draw the line. And it
is a pain sometimes to find just the right layer, yada yada yada.

How about a feature that allows switching GTV's yet keeping your
current active layer active (and on, of course) with all the other
layers in the 2nd GTV turned on? In essence it would be adding a
GTV to your active layer. Then it could revert back to the previous
GTV with the same layer active. What say?

Hi Steve,

Right, rather than always toggling between GTV's, there are several situations where it would be great to have "additive" GTV's -- you have my vote!

If I'm understanding correctly, this might do what you want.

I reserve the first GoToView in every drawing file as a "working" GoToView and have a keyboard macro that saves the current viewport/layers/active layer to it, naming it "HereIwas." The keyboard macro line:

H^v^S6^F1^S9^F1^HereIwas^$^S0^

If I need to switch away from the view/layer settings that I'm working in, I hit Alt+H, then use GoToView to get to the other place. Once, I'm finished with working there, I hit Shift+1 and return to the "HereIwas" view.

Remember that the first 10 GoToViews are accessible by Shift+# (1-0).

Philip,
This is a really cool idea. It's too bad that our 10 GTV's are taken by
office standards. But would this idea retain your current active layer
once GTV's are changed? That's what I'm looking for.

CLARIFICATION TO MY WISH:
My wish would work like this: wherever you are drawing, and whatever
view is displayed on the screen and whatever layer is active, hitting the
"add GTV" feature would silumtaneously 1) create a temporary GTV that
would save your existing view/layer situation, 2) turn off all layers except
the active layer, 3) turn on all layers in the already existing GTV that is
selected from the GTV list, without (or with!) adjusting its view (scale or
location). You could then draw what you needed to draw, then the
function would allow you to return to exactly where you were before
executing the function. The temporary GTV would then be deleted upon
return to it.

As another example, it's common for us to construct sections on the
section layers right on top of the section cut lines shown in floor and roof
GTV's. There is much toggling of layers on and off and setting up temp
GTV's to go back and forth between other GTV's in order to draw what
is needed. Once sections are drawn, they are then placed on the sheet
where needed. This wish could eliminate much of this back and forth time.

I reserve the first GoToView in every drawing file as a "working" GoToView...

I used to do the same thing for years, until we were given Multi-Views. Now, I use those, set up at the side of my standard DataCad screen, for all of my temporary "working" views...

Greetings,

I use all ten MW on my dual monitor set up:

http://www.datacad.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=43

My wish would work like this: wherever you are drawing, and whatever view is displayed on the screen and whatever layer is active, hitting the "add GTV" feature would silumtaneously 1) create a temporary GTV that would save your existing view/layer situation, 2) turn off all layers except the active layer, 3) turn on all layers in the already existing GTV that is selected from the GTV list, without (or with!) adjusting its view (scale or location). You could then draw what you needed to draw, then the function would allow you to return to exactly where you were before executing the function. The temporary GTV would then be deleted upon return to it.

Got my vote for this, too.

Thanks,
Miguel