Not sure what to do now,

I have been thrust into a position to create autocad (adt) customization and
office standards. I have created a profile and template to have dimension
styles, layers, texts, units etc . . . automatically be in each drawing for
each computer. Well, that's what I had hoped, anyway. The layers don't
show up properly. Any advice? Please!

 

Apologies -

I have a list of layers that I've given colors and linetypes. I want these
to show up in every drawing. If I start a new drawing I just get layer 0 -
but all my "preferences" in tact. If I open an existing one, no new layers
are there - just what was previously created. Again, all my "preferences"
are in tact.

 

How DO the layers show up? How do you want they to show up?


Dave

 

You'll need to be a bit more specific about "The layers don't show up
properly." If you created a template drawing, and it contains all of the
required layers, then what happens and where does it seem to go wrong?
___

 

Nothing unusual happens that I can detect. (But that's not saying much.)
The layers simply don't show up.

 

Quick guess: make sure you're using the template-based variety of making a
new drawing, and not "Start from Scratch", which would give you AutoCAD's
defaults, not the settings in your template.

Kent Cooper, AIA


...

 

I have been thrust into a position to create autocad (adt)

Are you talking about LayerKeysStyles? Format -->Layer Managment --> Layer
Key Styles?

These are settings used by ADT ( Architectural DeskTop ) for creating AEC
Objects, i.e. Walls, Doors, Shedules, etc. They won't appear in a drawing
until the appropriate ADT command is called: WallAdd will create the layer
that is defined by the LayerKey "WALL" and put the AecWall Object on that
layer.

A very powerful customization tool. If you want to generate the layers
stored in the Active LayerKey style use:

;;; Makes sure the Aec LayerManager Lisp ARX is loaded
(defun jb:loadAECLayerARX (/)
(if (null AecSetLayerKeyOverride)
(progn
(cond
((= (substr (getvar "ACADVER") 1 5) "15.06")
(setq file(strcat (vla-get-path (vlax-get-acad-object))
"\\AecLayerManagerUI30.arx")))
((= (substr (getvar "ACADVER") 1 4) "16.0")
(setq file(strcat (vla-get-path (vlax-get-acad-object))
"\\AecLMgrLisp40.arx")))
((= (substr (getvar "ACADVER") 1 4) "16.1")
(setq file(strcat (vla-get-path (vlax-get-acad-object))
"\\AecLMgrLisp45.arx"))))
(arxload file [])
)))

;;; snipit of code to generate all defined layer keys:
(foreach i(aeclayerkeylist)
(aecgeneratelayerkey i))

jb

 

Christine,
There is no need to "customize" ADT layering. All the layering standards
are built in to the ADT commands and palettes. Just specify
the layer standard you wish to use in _AecDwgLayerSetup.

I would strongly recommend using the standard built-in to
it OOTB.

Regards,
Doug

 

Perfect! Thank you.

 

That's my guess also, sounds like the OP is getting "profiles" and
"templates" confused.

Murph

 

OP?

 

"other person"

 

lol - me being the other person?
It's entirely possible. Confusion reigns.

 

OP = Original Poster. The person who posted the
first post in the thread, usually asking a question.

 

You're certainly welcome. Glad to help.

 

That's better than being an Obnoxious Person. As Doug stated Original
Poster.

Murph