Number of Layouts Limitations
V6.2.0024, After setting up 8 layouts and trying to create a 9th using the Layout>Copy command, I get a message "Operation Failed." Is there a maximum number of layouts permitted? I was hoping to end up with about 20 paperspace layouts with various viewports of a single model.Should I be considering using xrefs instead of layouts? Xrefs are foreign to me.
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In V7.1.0013 I have had up to about 35, but I agree it becomes unstable beyond about 10 layouts.Closing and reopening Icad lets me continue (as long as I didn't save the version with lost data in the layouts - the model always survives), but I have lost parts of layouts and can't copy reliably from one layout to another.In a support request I was advised purging layers was causing my trouble - that could be true, but it's not the cause of all the trouble.Xrefs are pretty much like blocks, then you can xclip them and achieve most of what you can with pspace layouts. Notably you can't have different layers showing in clipped areas in the same dwg, and large xrefs slow down some operations in the child dwg.One main client doesn't accept pspace dwgs, so it's not too bad that it does not work so well for me.
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Found my problem. On my layouts I had a drawing with several viewports. When I copied Layout 1 to Layout 2, and similarly copied up through Layout 8, I hit the limit on maximum active viewports which was set at 32. Increasing the number up to 48 using setvar MAXACTVP allowed me to create additional Layouts and viewports.
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Hmm, I had looked for a limit but never found the MAXACTVP variable. It defaults to 48 with a max 64 in V7.1.0013, but I don't think I have ever reached 48.However I have had enough trouble to be distrustful of using Layouts.One of its hiccups was when copying title blocks from one layout to another - it would randomly produce copied (plain) text at about 400 times its original size. Leave the program and come back, copying works properly again.
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I'm creating additional layouts by copying an existing layout using the Layout>Copy command and have not (yet) had a problem. Up to 12 layouts so far. Titleblock and entities all seem to be in order. Could be that copying (dragging) stuff from one existing layout to another existing layout is causing your hiccups.
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Well I hadn't used the layout>copy command and it did happen when using the plain Copy command, but only when the drawing and number of layouts were growing fairly large, and inconsistently - reopen and the same operation works properly.At other times I would go to a layout previously created ok, to find vports and sometimes my title block missing. That usually happened in about 3/4 of the layouts all at the same time. The copying problem might be a hiccup, this is indigestion!
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