No print layer?!?!?!

[Red]

How about having a layer that "never" prints? I know you can achieve this through layers and layer combinations, but would it be nice to have a no print layer?

[TomWaltz]

I'm curious: what would this be useful for?

Why not just turn it off? Or have a pen that never plots?

[Ben Odonnell]

Yes,
I'm with Tom on this one. I really can't see the advantages of having a layer that doesn't print when you could simply turn it of.

Cheers.
Ben

[Anonymous]

Ben wrote:
Yes,
I'm with Tom on this one. I really can't see the advantages of having a layer that doesn't print when you could simply turn it of.

Cheers.
Ben

I can see the advantage as the no-print layer would always be a part of your layer set and you wouldn't have to toggle the layer on and off during drawing. Don't think it would have a high priority though.

[Red]

My question would be why work around when it could just be a layer?

[TomWaltz]

So you want a layer to be visible, but not plot. I get it.

I think I could buy into it, as long as it was part of the Layer Combination: Visible when working always, and Plotting in some, not plotting in others.

[Red]

In our case there are certain notes that we never print. They are just on the drawing for reference etc.... We currently setup a layer that does not show in any layer combination. We just thought it would be nice to have a layer w/in archicad {similar to the default archicad layer} that would never print. Why have a hotspot that never prints? It just for reference.

[TomWaltz]

Why have a hotspot that never prints?

Hotspots don't ever plot, do they?

[Anonymous]

TomWaltz wrote:
So you want a layer to be visible, but not plot. I get it.

I think I could buy into it, as long as it was part of the Layer Combination: Visible when working always, and Plotting in some, not plotting in others.

I think the option to print the non-print layer should be an option in plotmker. Defaulted to not print of course.

[Red]

TomWaltz wrote:

Why have a hotspot that never prints?

Hotspots don't ever plot, do they?

Thats the point that I'm trying to make. Some people make think a No Print layer is needed. So why have hotspots which is a no print.

I was just comparing