Non-plot option or layer

[CFS_Mike]

I wish that there was a non-plot layer for Archicad. Sometimes I need to put notes on drawings for internal use only, Make it happen Graphisoft! 

[Karl Ottenstein]

People coming from Autodesk products often wish for this, but it always indicated a misunderstanding of Archicad layers.  You can create as many layers as you want and can exclude any layer you want from any layer combination...including all layer combinations.  So, if you want such a layer, create an "Internal Use Notes" layer, or "A-Anno Internal Only" or whatever you want to call it... and just remove it from every layer combination.  Better than the no-plot layer in other software... you can create as many of these as you want for whatever purposes to sort out your internal-use-only elements.

Note that new layers in AC 28 (can't recall if it works the same in earlier versions) are automatically excluded from all layer combinations by default.

Yes, you would then either need to turn it on manually when you want to see or add to the content ...or you would have to create "working" layer combinations vs "printing" ones that are used for drawings.  This is also easy.  Shift-click to select all layer combinations in the Layers dialog...right click and select Duplicate.  I'm not sure I would recommend the overhead of creating duplicate views of everything just for this layer vs manually turning it on when needed (via ctrl-L/cmd-L 

Someone may have a better suggested workflow.

This has been discussed here every now and then for over 25 years and it has never gotten any traction given the workarounds.

[Karl Ottenstein]

If you still feel strongly that you want layers that display in working views but never print, make a wish here:

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Wishlist/idb-p/wishlist

and post a link back to this thread to drum up support. 🙂

[Marc H]

Design Options have the effect of hiding things. Might try creating a Design Option (e.g., “Internal Notes”) and assign the non-plots to that. Then have a DOS with that DO visible in view settings for, say modeling, annotating, etc. and another DOS with it  hidden in plotting view settings.