17 May 96, Jerry Myer of 1:387/783 wrote to Klaas Leguit
 >JM>  Does anybody have a special technique for zooming drawings?
 >
 JM>   I guess I'm not following what you are saying. Create a
 JM> new drawing? I follow freezing layers for different views,
 JM> but that sounds like more trouble than implementing the ZD
 JM> (ZoomDraw), ZV (ZoomView), and ZDA (ZoomDrawAll)
 JM> distinction...
Well you start as usual, with a drawing in modelspace. Here you design every 
detail. In a new drawing with viewports called view1, view2, view3 or more 
relevant names you open those views, give them names like detail 1, detail 2 
etc. and opens a XREF Attach. If something changes you go back to the 
original drawing and do the changes there. I've used this method for a 
building, which had to be plotted in three parts. A colleague made the 
drawing, opened three new drawings and made a xref to the original plan. If 
something had to be changed, he went to the original and changed it there. So 
the changes came in all three drawings. Later I added the reinforcement in 
the original. All the steel was drawn in the reinforcement layers called 
WAP1, WAPTXT and similar names. Then I opened the three drawings and I had 
frozen the layers then marked XREF|WAP1 etc. (set VISRETAIN=1!!!!). So the 
reinforcement wasn't shown in these drawings. Then I made three copies and 
had thawn the reinforcement layers and frozen some other, now irrelevant, 
layers. I hope I made it more clear to you, but there will be something in 
the manual. I know AutoCAD isn't a very good manual-writer, but maybe they 
make xref's clear to you.
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Klaas
k.leguit@dosgg.nl from Drachten Holland
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