I have a boundary survey with a topo. I want to make two separate drawings. Is there a way to have the topo elevations show up in the 'topo' layout tab and not in the 'boundary' tab? Without copying the model and simply having them display totaly different areas in model space?
I'm running Autocad 2004. Not sure how important that is.
If they've not made massive changes since LDD2000 this should work.
Switch to your "boundary" layout tab, at the bottom of the screen toggle the paper/model control to "model". Now you can edit model space as if you're looking through a window. Click your layer control. The next to the last column on the right should be "current VP freeze". This allows you to freeze layers in the current viewport, but they will still show up in all other viewports.
I first read that as "lawyers", & thought, "Now THAT would be a handy feature..."
Stephen's solution is a better one than I'm going to offer but you may enjoy exploring the "snapshot" or "layer states" (same thing different name, depending on version). You will find pallets for these on the buttons at the top of your Layer Manager pallet.
CV