Group Layers and manipulate more than one laer at a time.
Currently layers list as one group when created with AutoCad. Microstation will create a layer hierarchy with referenced files.
The ability to group layers from within Acrobat would be very useful, a drag and drop facility like the method for bookmarks would make this an infinitely more useful file.
Also, the ability to manipulate more than one layer at a time. Currently setting a default state needs to be applied individually. To be able to apply states across multiple layers, ie on and off or default state would be an enormous time saver.
Linda Seymour
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Thank you for the suggestion. We have notified our engineering for the same. We shall get in touch with you incase we need more information.
Thank you for the patience
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John Hastie
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I was about to post a new request when I found this post from Linda. Below is what I intended to write, hopefully it adds weight to the request.
Primary suggestion...
A VERY large number of organisations distribute their CAD drawings in PDF format. These drawings contain layers and these layers can flow through to the PDF. The desktop PDF viewer allows users to turn these layers on and off. This is very useful, paticularly where the drawing contains lots of detail, however there are likely to be a large number of layers and having to switch them one at a tme can be tedious.
Having the ability to select multiple layers via a standard windows shift-click would allow users to easily switch groups of layers on and off together.Related suggestion...
AutoCAD has the ability to store different named views of the same drawing with specific layers turned on or off.
If these named views were able to flow through to the PDF file then these PDF drawings potentially become much more useful again.Currently, even though drawings are created electronically and distributed electronically, they very often still end up being printed on paper. The addition of these features would definitely help people to go fully electronic.
All of these suggestions would apply to to CAD drawings of any type (Mechanical, Structural, Civil, Architectural etc)Have already added a related post to the mobile feature request page.