Managing layers and layer structures

The management of layers and layer structures is generally the responsibility of the office administrator. This person defines which layers are used, sets up the privilege sets and grants access rights. The designers (architects, engineers, etc.) are assigned to the privilege sets and thus automatically have the relevant permissions.

Access privileges can be controlled at layer level by means of privilege sets. Privilege sets are generally assigned when there are several people working on the same project: When the Workgroup Manager is installed, each person is granted the rights to one or more privilege sets and can consequently see/edit only the layers associated with those sets.

Workgroup Manager handles the organization of CAD workstations in local networks. The Workgroup Manager module enables users to access all projects on all computers from every workstation. It ensures data consistency even if several users are simultaneously working on the same project.

When you create a project, you can decide whether you want to use the layer structure of the office standard or a project-specific layer structure.

You can name and save layer structures and retrieve these structures later. If you have assigned line styles to layers, they are saved together with the layer structure (with the same file name plus the extension .sty). When importing a layer structure you saved, you can decide whether to import the associated line style file, too.

What do you want to do?

Save layer structures

Retrieve layer structures saved

Restore default layer structures

Find out how to modify layer structures