Posted by: RichardD
How to hide gaskets & weld gaps in current layer? - 10/17/12 09:58 AM
CW2013 running finally!
I see that the gaskets & weld gaps are in the current .prj layer.
How can I hide or turn them off for plotting without changing them to a different layer?
Thanks,
RDO
Posted by: Rocker
Re: How to hide gaskets & weld gaps in current layer? - 10/17/12 12:38 PM
You assign a layer override in your PRJ for those. Then you turn that layer off before plotting.
Posted by: RichardD
Re: How to hide gaskets & weld gaps in current layer? - 10/17/12 01:05 PM
R,
Ok,assign a layer overrride in exactly where in the prj?
thx,
RDO
Posted by: Rocker
Re: How to hide gaskets & weld gaps in current layer? - 10/17/12 03:18 PM
At the Edit Component section. You can type in a new layer name. I use _Bolts.
Posted by: Vanman
Re: How to hide gaskets & weld gaps in current layer? - 10/17/12 10:57 PM
The SYSVIS command has been mentioned before as a workaround. It works pretty well.
Posted by: RichardD
Re: How to hide gaskets & weld gaps in current layer? - 10/18/12 09:07 AM
Edited said layer to system, apply, save prj. reload dwg, set spec, and pipe a weld gap and gasket, wg & gasket still is on 150 layer.
Posted by: mphipps
Re: How to hide gaskets & weld gaps in current layer? - 10/18/12 09:17 AM
it adds a _ to the name of the layer so it will put them on the _system layer.
unfortunately, at least in my case, it still puts them in as the same color as the spec layer. It's annoying, but at least they are on a non-plotting layer
edit: Now I feel silly for overlooking the color index.
Posted by: RichardD
Re: How to hide gaskets & weld gaps in current layer? - 10/18/12 10:16 AM
mphipps!
The a_ is the winner! Many thanks!
RDO
Posted by: mphipps
Re: How to hide gaskets & weld gaps in current layer? - 12/13/12 04:09 PM
bumping this thread as I noticed a "bug" with the layers.
I currently have the bolts/gaskets coming in on the _system layer as indicated in the .prj file.
If I double click on a gasket or bolt to open up the component edit, as soon as I close out of it by selecting "ok", it changes to the spec layer.
It seems to happen with any component not on the spec layer, but for our purposes, the _system layer (gaskets/bolts) is the only non-spec layer indicated in the .prj