Export Layout to Model Space
Apparently this is a new feature in Acad. Obviously I am not the only one who could use it.
Just wondering if anyone has used it, if there are any plans to include it in Icad and if anyone knows of a workaround to achieve the same thing?
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That would be useful for me too. I like to put all drawing in the model tab, and use layouts only to represent a sheet of paper, title block, border, etc. So if I get details from other sources that are split between modelspace and paperspace I move the paperspace part of it.
I've been doing it by making all the paperspace stuff into a temporary block, using an osnap point in model space as its insertion point. Then I go into the viewport and insert the temporary block, with insertion scale factor equal to the viewport scale, and then explode it.
But of course any dimension entities have to have their Dimscale Overall changed to equal the viewport scale factor. And the same with the linetype scale of all entities that aren't of continuous linetype. It would be nice if a single command could take the place of all that and make the adjustments.0 -
Our state government won't accept files using Pspace. I use Xref and Xclip for their jobs, but I am being asked to convert some done in ignorance of their (stupid) standard.
Looking around, many standards ask for only title block info to be drawn in Pspace. That makes sense - doesn't it make you wild when there are dimensions etc in PS?
Your method seems to have a slightly different aim, but I guess I could adapt it.
A layout with simple Vports is not hard to reproduce in MS, but a repeated or blown up detail of a main area of a dwg requires multiple snapshots.
I can do that from scratch with Xref/Xclip, but even then can't mimic Pspace's ability to have different layers frozen in different Vports containing the same area on the same screen.
I wonder if Acad's new function can.
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