CompuServe Messages

I think both conventions are valid. When it's all done with layers, one's layering standard can become convoluted. If I've got several groups of entities that need to have different appearances in other drawings, then I am forced to have one additional layer for each group. This can really make a layering standard somewhat confusing, and just feels to klutzy to me. Perhaps a better extention would be to move to something like the nested layers that were spoken of here before? What I like about entity specific properties on xref'd data, is that it is so specific to that one drawing, and doesn't affect anything in other parts of the drawing, or other sheets for that matter. Also, if you have to deal with something like the UK layering system, imagine the headaches that might cause…. Perhaps it is worth waiting for something like ObjectCad, though. It might be that much more natural in such an environment. I should also stretch, if it isn't clear enough, that I'm not talking about large scale individual entity changes; I think that would be entirely inappropriate, and would suggest to me that my layering scheme was not deep enough in it's level of detail. Just some food for thought…