302 — Site Layers, in cv-web

Two questions per layer, and they are not the same question: do you want to see it, and do you want to plot it.

Note

This lesson also exists in the browser. Work it in ConstructiVision on the web — same steps, same values, so you can follow either and end up with the same panel.

Where it is

Elevations mode → Elevations → Site Layers. Unlike Place Panel, this one needs no panel selected — the layers belong to the site, not to a panel.

One row per layer

Each row shows the layer’s drawing colour, its plain-English name, and in brackets the name AutoCAD uses — walline, slabline, xy, xy_dim. They are the same names in both products, so a layer you turn off here is the layer you know from the drawing.

Then two checkboxes: View and Print.

View and Print are not the same switch

This is the whole point of the dialog, and the mistake it invites.

Turning a layer off on screen leaves it on the plot. If you hide the dimensions to get a clear look at the slab and then issue the sheet, the dimensions are still on the issued sheet.

So there is a shortcut for the common case:

No dims on plot	clears the print flag on every dimension layer at once
Restore	puts them back

Note what that does not do: it leaves the dimensions visible while you work. Working view and issued sheet are set separately, on purpose.

There are also All / None buttons for View and for Print, as bulk versions of the same two questions.

Four layers are reserved, and the dialog says so

Connections, footings, custom and hardware are listed, and their flags save and reload correctly — but the web site plan does not draw that geometry yet, so toggling them changes nothing on screen.

The dialog states this at the bottom rather than leaving you to work it out. It is listed here too, because a layer that looks switchable and does nothing is exactly the sort of thing a tutorial should name rather than skip.

What to take away

Set View for how you want to work. Set Print for what the sheet should carry. The dialog keeps them apart because the two answers are usually different.