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Opening Layout Views

Label Panel “Layout Box Borders and Labels” on page
1297.
Layout box labels display in layout when the
“Layout Box Labels” layer is turned on and For more information about the settings on
use the Text Style assigned to that layer. See this panel, see “Label Panel” on page 682.

Opening Layout Views
Dynamic and Semi-Dynamic views Annotation Sets
sent to layout refer to an original view
in a plan. From the layout page, you can Floor plan views, cross section/elevation
access that original view by selecting a views, and CAD Details sent to layout each
layout box, then clicking the Open View edit have a set of Active Defaults associated with
button. The original view can also be opened it. When you send one of these view types to
by double-clicking the layout view using the layout, these defaults become associated
with the layout view; and when you open the
Select Objects tool. original view of one of these types of layout
Changes made in this view update in the views, its defaults will become active
original layout view. Be aware that automatically. See “Multiple Saved
depending on the changes you make, other Defaults” on page 89.
views may also be affected. You can specify which defaults are
associated with a floor plan view sent to
Layer Sets layout by specifying the view’s Current
Annotation Set in the Layout Box
Notice the name of the current layer set that
displays in the Active Layer Set Control Specification dialog See “Plan View Panel”
drop-down list. Changes made to this layer on page 1301.
set affect not only the current view, but also Please note that the Current Annotation Set
the associated layout view and any other associated with a layout view always uses the
views that use this layer set. See “Layer layer set assigned to the layout view,
Sets” on page 187. regardless of how the Annotation Set itself
may be defined.

It is important to remember that when a
plan view is accessed by opening a
dynamic layout view, that view uses the same
layer set as the layout view.

Managing Layout Links

Chief Architect allows you to review plan
files linked to a current layout, change

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