Non-Printing Layer
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Can a layer or object be set to NOT PRINT in Layout? but still be seen in the file?
thanks
drew -
Not according to my knowledge - besides, I'm not sure I understand where such a feature would be needed...
Can you please enlighten us and give some examples where it would be a nice feature, where you make an object visible on the screen or in the document, however, where it's not supposed to be printed...
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You could always put those items on a separate layer and turn it off before exporting the PDF!
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@frederik said:
Not according to my knowledge - besides, I'm not sure I understand where such a feature would be needed...
Can you please enlighten us and give some examples where it would be a nice feature, where you make an object visible on the screen or in the document, however, where it's not supposed to be printed...
I also would like this feature. I have a layer that is visible on every page called "Guides" with guidelines that I use to locate drawings and text on the sheet. It is a huge PITA to turn this layer off on every sheet before printing. I always end up reprinting a few sheets because this layer was inadvertently left on. It would be much better to leave this on all the time and just know that it won't print.
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@frederik said:
Not according to my knowledge - besides, I'm not sure I understand where such a feature would be needed...
Can you please enlighten us and give some examples where it would be a nice feature, where you make an object visible on the screen or in the document, however, where it's not supposed to be printed...
Why would this be useful? For the same reasons that making layers visible & invisible while manipulating your drawing is useful:
- Because your drawing has 100 layers and only a few are interesting at the moment, e.g., the boundaries and walkways of the remodel, but not the topo contours, lawn, concrete, tree trunks, tree driplines, pond, retaining walls, pipes, sprinklers, valve boxes, drainage ditch, driveway, overhead electrical, underground electrical, gas pipes, sewers, deck, and the dozens of other layers that the surveyor created to be thorough.
- Because your drawing has 100 layers and you're interesting in the interactions of only a few of them.
- Because your drawing has 100 layers and some layers obscure details in the ones your currently interested.
- Because it's annoying, every time you do something in the program, but it's not obvious what, just because you do whatever that is, that 77 layers were made visible, and you need to find and individually turn off those 77 layers, every friggin' time you do it, because there's no "Don't muck with the layer visibility" option.
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I think what is needed is actual layer setups that can be saved. Somehow the "pages" is not the same.
I do have the "do not print" option in CAD, but don't find a use for it, since I use layer setups in CAD for those layer combinations (Locked, colored, dimmmed, visible, order of stack etc.) that I need to come back to.
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I'd like to see something similar...
And I'd like to see PDF export that does not include any pages that you have turned off with the 'include in presentation' toggle. Maybe add that to the layers, and get it to work for screen presentations as well as anything you print / export.
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