LAYEREVAL / LAYEREVALCTL not maintaining setting

[magnusonzach]

Ok - here's a head scratcher...
I'll go into a drawing and set my LAYEREVAL (Reconcile Layers notification settings) to be "ON", and toggle the various settings inside of that, show on open, print, xref only, etc. Then when I save and close the drawings, and reopen it, it will have reverted back to the "OFF" state.
I don't see any sort of script or project specific .mnl/.lsp routine running, and a search in the support folder does not bring up anything that would be turning it off in the background.

I asked a co-worker (who's on 2014) and he has the same issue. It's been working fine in the past, but I'm just noticing it today. Of course, it's right now when it would be incredibly useful for managing a mess of xref layers...

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[pendean]

The reset only happens when you restart AutoCAD? and no other time?

R2017 (and R2014) are not new versions by a long stretch: is LAYEREVAL being used for the first time, or was there a system or software change? There is no such problem most of the time.

Do you both have an 3rd party add-on or a private startup routine that auto-loads a saved external profile or other setup? I know you wrote that you checked, but if the issue only occurs at startup the problem resides in that process.

EDIT: also check to ensure LAYEREVALCTL system variable is NOT set to 0.

Let us know.

[rkmcswain]

Are you and your co-worker on the same network, controlled by the same startup files?
Perhaps someone introduced some startup code to set these variables.
Run the "U" command after opening the drawing, until there are no more commands to undo, then check the variable again.

[magnusonzach]

This happens each time I close and reopen the files. LAYEREVALCTL is not set to 0, and there is not any startup lisp routines running. This is the first time on these specific files that I am using LAYEREVAL, I use it with no issues on other projects/files, and have not encountered this issue of it not retaining the settings before.

[Tom Beauford]

Try adding LAYEREVAL to the System Variable Monitor. Since it's saved in the drawing you should be notified each time it's changed at least. If it's changed when the drawing is opened you need to talk to whoever manages those startup files.

[pendean]

Q: does the function work regardless of this exercise of trying to keep your variables set to what you think they should be? Or is it failing?

[magnusonzach]

There are no start up files that I can see. It's changing every time I open the drawing file. Adding LAYEREVAL just lets me know that it's been "reset" it doesn't help in tracking down the problem of "why is this resetting".

If I toggle LAYEREVAL (in any of it's variations and deep settings) it works until I close the drawing. I get the 'new layer notification' and can manipulate the unreconciled layers (and it even saves the settings of which layers have been reconciled) until I save and close out.

[magnusonzach]

I'm seeing that LAYEREVALCTL is saved in the Registry, not the Drawing - are there Profile options that change Registry settings? I can get it to work in my 'default' profile, but not in the client profile. Again, I'm not seeing any startup scripts/lisps running when I open the drawing, nor are there paths that look like startup scripts in the profile.
Which makes me think there is a profile setting changing this.

[pendean]

There are no start up files that I can see

Why not create a new startup then with these variables settings in your own ACADDOC.LSP file http://forums.augi.com/showthread.ph...during-startup

[magnusonzach]

I found this nugget buried in the client-provided .arg file; it's in a sub heading of registry edits (REGEDIT):

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R20.1\ACAD-F001:409\Profiles\CLIENT ACAD\Drawing Window]
"LayerEvalCtl"=dword:00000000

I'm guessing this might be doing it. I'm going to experiment to see if changing the value here has any effect.