Is it possible - Layer States per Tab and Publish

[03xtreme]

ok, loswitch.dvb does not work when invoking plot or publish... so this won't work for 2006, it used to work on 2002.

simple question:
is it possible to modify the layer dialogue box so that layer states or managers las lay can be linked to a page setup or layout tab.

why can autodesk not fix this? we've asked for it since 2000.... 6 years later NOTHING.

[miff]

Isn't that what VPLAYERS is for?

[Jeepin]

ok, loswitch.dvb does not work when invoking plot or publish... so this won't work for 2006, it used to work on 2002.

simple question:
is it possible to modify the layer dialogue box so that layer states or managers las lay can be linked to a page setup or layout tab.

why can autodesk not fix this? we've asked for it since 2000.... 6 years later NOTHING.I'm not sure about "vlayers", but why not your individual drawings set up and use xref's and set up the layer states in each drawing. then use sheet set manager to pull all of the drawings together to plot. This is what I'm planning on doing and I currently use loswitch in 2004.

[Jeepin]

Isn't that what VPLAYERS is for?Ok, I read up on Vplayers. That only freezes and thaws layers.
loswitch will actually remember linetypes, colors, and freeze thaw, so if you go from a drainage plan to a utility plan, you can have the utilities pipes in grey for drainage and vice versa for utilities. I believe the civil industry would use this most, but I am not sure. By doing what I mentioned in my previous post, one can set up a template w/ the xref'ed drawings renamed and can change the colors so as to lighten up lineweights of things that one does not want dominant on the sheet, but would still like to show it because of crossings and such.

[03xtreme]

loswitch is great and all but in 2006, you have to manually switch the layout tabs first, because autocad won't run the dvb BEFORE it initiates plotting or publishing, therefore it's useless because the regeneration occurs after the layout tab is plotted.....

off to the dvb forum I go.