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jlm		#1 Posted : Sunday, October 3, 2010 3:27:14 AM(UTC)
Rank: Senior Member Joined: 2/18/2007(UTC) Posts: 1,252 Location: Paris & Frankfurt Thanks: 217 times Was thanked: 164 time(s) in 101 post(s)		I mentioned this several times over the past years : Exporting part of a file includes all the empty layers. This looks messy, is time consuming to clean, and can be a big confidentiality issue : I have sometimes different layers for different customers and I don't want to show them. See attached exported file (using "select only") : - 2 elements - 43 layers... File Attachment(s): Bug angle dim.sfx (9kb) downloaded 5 time(s). You cannot view/download attachments. Try to login or register.
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jdi000		#2 Posted : Sunday, October 3, 2010 8:20:33 AM(UTC)
Rank: Administration Joined: 7/29/2007(UTC) Posts: 1,862 Thanks: 1 times Was thanked: 87 time(s) in 81 post(s)		Originally Posted by: jlm I mentioned this several times over the past years : Exporting part of a file includes all the empty layers. This looks messy, is time consuming to clean, and can be a big confidentiality issue : I have sometimes different layers for different customers and I don't want to show them. See attached exported file (using "select only") : - 2 elements - 43 layers... HI jl Yes the export selected only does exports empty layers, you can use the file compact (new in version 7) to remove all empty layers with a couple of clicks to save you time. Regards Jason jdi000 attached the following image(s): empty layers.PNG (39kb) downloaded 5 time(s). You cannot view/download attachments. Try to login or register.
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ZeroLengthCurve		#3 Posted : Tuesday, October 5, 2010 10:28:29 AM(UTC)
Rank: Senior Member Joined: 5/15/2008(UTC) Posts: 989 Thanks: 19 times Was thanked: 37 time(s) in 25 post(s)		At first when i began using layers in VC 2D/3D back in (what, 2008?) i lamented having to remove empty layers one-by-one. Then, i realized that keeping them was a major time saver for some models where i user the empty layers as a launchpad to more editing of the file. As a hybrid option, it would be useful to be able to select which layers to keep on expor and which to export as empty. Is that possible, and maybe i've overlooked it? For importing content into a skeletal file, it might be nice if the layers were pre-matched in a way similar to Lotus Approach or FileMakerPro (of the old days) where a dialog window showed all fields in a table (akin to layers) in the source and all matching or non-name-matching fields in the target. The user could then remap regardless of field name. Initially, it is automatic, but the user can step in before the import begins and uncheck certain layer down to one layer.


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XL5		#4 Posted : Friday, February 25, 2011 12:56:17 AM(UTC)
Rank: Member Joined: 2/4/2011(UTC) Posts: 43		This is my "work around". I make a copy of the file, then I DELETE all the layers I do not want to export. using ViaCAD 6, 2D, Mac OS.


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