PaperSpace Suite

HealthCheck runs automatically — you don't need to remember to check. But you can always trigger a manual scan too.

1. HealthCheck scans automatically when you leave a viewport (switch from Model Space back to Paper Space).
2. It also re-scans when you switch documents or open a new drawing.
3. To run a manual check, click the 🔄 button in the dashboard header.
4. The dashboard updates immediately: green checks, orange warnings, or red alerts.

Unlocked viewports are dangerous. One accidental scroll wheel inside an unlocked viewport and your scale is gone. HealthCheck flags this as a red issue — the most serious category.

1. Click the Lock row in the dashboard. The Lock Issues window opens.
2. You see a list of all unlocked viewports — layout name, viewport number, and current status.
3. Per viewport you can:
   • Jump — navigate to the viewport (HealthCheck switches layout and highlights it in magenta)
   • Fix — lock this single viewport
4. Or click Fix All to lock every unlocked viewport at once.

In a well-organized drawing, all viewports live on the same layer — typically a dedicated, non-plotting layer. HealthCheck detects the most-used layer and flags any viewport that doesn't match.

1. Click the Layer row in the dashboard. The Layer Issues window opens.
2. When there's a clear favorite layer (the most-used one), the window names it in the subtitle and the Fix buttons move outliers straight to it — no layer to choose.
3. When several layers are tied for most-used, a dropdown lets you pick which of those tied candidates becomes the favorite. Your choice decides which viewports show up as "to move". Once you move even one, that layer has the majority and the tie is gone.
4. The Defpoints layer is deliberately left out: it's never counted as the favorite and never offered as a candidate, since viewports parked there are usually unintentional.
5. Per viewport: Jump to see it, or Fix to move it to the favorite layer.
6. Click Fix All to move every flagged viewport to the favorite layer at once.

HealthCheck compares each viewport's actual zoom factor against its annotation scale. If someone zoomed inside the viewport (even slightly), the two no longer match — and your dimensions and scale bar are lying.

1. Click the Scale row in the dashboard. The Scale Issues window opens.
2. Each viewport shows its initial scale name (from annotation scales) so you can see what it was supposed to be.
3. Per viewport: Jump to navigate to it. HealthCheck highlights the affected viewport in magenta.
4. Fix the scale manually in AutoCAD — HealthCheck cannot auto-fix this because it doesn't know if the zoom was intentional.

HealthCheck also checks whether the scale name exists in the drawing's scale list (SCALELISTEDIT). A viewport with a non-standard or missing scale name is flagged too.

A viewport doesn't always show something. You can create one and forget to point it at your geometry, or copy a viewport that ends up looking at a blank stretch of model space. On the sheet it's just an empty box — easy to miss until it prints. The Empty Check finds these for you.

1. Run a check, then click the Empty row in the dashboard.
2. A window lists every viewport that shows no geometry, grouped the same way as the other checks.
3. Click Jump next to any entry to go straight to that viewport on its layout — it's briefly highlighted so you can't miss it.
4. Decide per viewport: give it content (pan/zoom it onto your model, or thaw the layers it needs) or delete it if it shouldn't be there.

The Fit Check answers a question the other checks can't: does each layout's content actually stay on the paper? After a bulk paper-size change, or when something gets moved by accident, a viewport or title block can end up partly or wholly off the sheet. You won't see it until you plot — unless you catch it here first.

1. Run a check, then click the Fit row in the dashboard. The Visual Dashboard opens.
2. Every layout appears as a thumbnail: a white sheet with all of its plottable content drawn in place — viewports in blue, and everything else (title blocks, text, geometry) in gray. A green border means everything fits; a red border means something runs off the sheet.
3. A gray sheet marks a layout that was skipped — its plot area isn't set to Layout (it's Window, Extents, View, …), so the fit question doesn't apply. The dashboard intro and the Skipped count on the main dashboard tell you how many.
4. Use the Only show warnings toggle to hide the layouts that are fine and focus on the ones that need attention.
5. Double-click any thumbnail to jump straight to that layout in AutoCAD — the dashboard stays open while you work.
6. Fixed something? Hit Refresh to re-read the drawing without closing the window.

Sometimes a viewport intentionally has a non-standard scale — a detail view, a schematic, a north arrow. You don't want HealthCheck to keep flagging it. That's what Ignore is for.

1. Open the Scale Issues window by clicking the Scale row.
2. Find the viewport you want to exclude and click Ignore.
3. The viewport disappears from the issues list and moves to the Ignored sub-row under Scale in the dashboard.
4. To undo: click the Ignored row, find the viewport, and click Unignore.

The ⚡ Fix Lock & Layer issues button runs along the bottom of the dashboard. It fixes the two checks that can be fixed automatically — and deliberately leaves the other two to you.

1. Click ⚡ Fix Lock & Layer issues at the bottom of the dashboard.
2. HealthCheck locks all unlocked viewports.
3. HealthCheck moves all viewports with layer issues to the most-used layer.
4. A summary tells you exactly what was fixed: "3 viewports locked. 2 viewports moved to 'VP-Kader'."

Scale and Fit are not touched — and that's on purpose. HealthCheck can't know whether a zoom was intentional, or where a viewport that runs off the sheet should really go. Those stay manual, which is exactly why the button names only the two checks it actually handles. If there are layer issues but several layers are tied for most-used, HealthCheck asks you to pick which one becomes the favorite first, via the Layer detail window.

Every detail window has a Jump button per viewport. It takes you directly to the affected viewport, no matter which layout it's on.

1. Click Jump next to any viewport in a detail window.
2. HealthCheck switches to the correct layout.
3. It zooms to show the full layout (Zoom Extents) so you have context.
4. The affected viewport is highlighted with a magenta frame (drawn inward, 12 lines thick) so it's impossible to miss.

Linking a viewport to a Layer State is the foundation of StateSync. Once linked, StateSync tracks whether the viewport and the state stay in sync.

1. Click 🔗 Link on the dashboard.
2. Select the viewport you want to link by clicking it in the drawing.
3. A dropdown appears showing all available Layer States in the drawing. Pick the one this viewport should match.
4. StateSync stores the link inside the viewport (via XData) and calculates a hash fingerprint of both the Layer State and the viewport's current layer overrides.
5. A blue frame appears around the viewport — confirming it's linked and in sync.

An orange frame means the viewport and its linked Layer State have drifted apart. Someone changed layer properties, or the state was updated in Layer State Manager. StateSync gives you three ways to resolve it.

1. Click the Modified row in the dashboard. The Modified Viewports window opens, listing all affected viewports.
2. Per viewport, you see:
   • The layout name and linked Layer State name
   • Jump — navigate to the viewport
   • Fix — restore the viewport to match the Layer State (discard viewport changes)
   • Investigate — see exactly which layer properties differ
3. Click Fix to restore the viewport's layer overrides to match the stored Layer State. The frame turns blue.

If the viewport's current state is actually the correct one (you made intentional changes), use Update State instead — this pushes the viewport's current layer settings into the Layer State.

A red frame means the linked Layer State no longer exists. This typically happens when someone deletes or renames a state in AutoCAD's Layer State Manager.

1. Click the Broken row in the dashboard. The Broken Viewports window opens.
2. Each broken viewport shows the name of the missing state it was linked to.
3. You have three options:
   • Re-link — choose an existing Layer State from the dropdown to restore the link
   • Save as New State — create a new Layer State from the viewport's current settings
   • Unlink — remove the link entirely (the frame disappears)

The Investigate window gives you a complete overview of all linked viewports and their current status. It's the central place to understand your drawing's sync state.

1. Click 🔎 Investigate on the dashboard.
2. Every linked viewport is listed with its layout, linked state name, and status (blue/orange/red).
3. Per viewport you can:
   • Jump — navigate to it
   • Fix — restore it to match the state (if modified)
   • Unlink — remove the connection
   • Investigate — open the Differences window to see exact layer-by-layer differences

Sometimes you want to capture a viewport's current layer settings as a new Layer State — either because no state exists yet, or because this viewport should have its own dedicated state.

1. Click ➕ Make State on the dashboard.
2. Select the viewport whose layer settings you want to capture.
3. Enter a name for the new Layer State.
4. StateSync reads the viewport's current layer overrides (visibility, freeze, color, linetype, etc.) and creates a new Layer State with those exact settings.
5. The viewport is automatically linked to the new state and shows a blue frame.

Viewport-frozen layers are stored correctly as FREEZE in the Layer State (not as On/Off) — a detail that AutoCAD's own "Save layer state from viewport" sometimes gets wrong.

When you've intentionally changed a viewport's layer settings and want the Layer State to reflect those changes, use Update State. This overwrites the Layer State with the viewport's current overrides.

1. Navigate to the modified viewport (orange frame).
2. From the Modified Viewports window, click Update State.
3. StateSync pushes the viewport's current layer overrides into the linked Layer State and recalculates the hash fingerprint.
4. The frame turns blue — the viewport and state are back in sync.

Before you fix or update, you probably want to know what exactly changed. The Differences window shows a layer-by-layer comparison between the viewport's current state and the linked Layer State.

1. From the Investigate or Modified window, click Investigate next to a viewport.
2. The Differences window opens, showing a table of layers where the viewport and the Layer State disagree.
3. Each row shows: the layer name, the property that differs (color, freeze, visibility, linetype, etc.), the viewport's value, and the state's value.
4. Layers that are globally turned Off are shown separately with a note — these can't be fixed via viewport overrides because On/Off is a global property.

Every viewport list in StateSync has a Jump button. It takes you directly to the viewport, no matter which layout it's on.

1. Click Jump next to any viewport in the Investigate, Modified, or Broken window.
2. StateSync switches to the correct layout.
3. The view zooms to show the full layout.
4. The colored frame around the viewport makes it easy to spot — blue, orange, or red depending on its status.

Switching layouts in AutoCAD usually means clicking tiny tabs or typing layout names. LayoutPilot gives you a scrollable, searchable list with instant navigation.

1. Click any layout name in the list. LayoutPilot switches to that layout immediately.
2. If Zoom All on switch is checked (default), the view zooms to show the full page.
3. Use the search bar to filter layouts by name — useful in drawings with dozens of layouts. Type several words to narrow further, and toggle the AND / OR button to choose whether a layout must match all words (AND) or any of them (OR).
4. The palette stays in sync: when you switch layouts via AutoCAD's tabs, the selection in LayoutPilot follows.

When you select a layout, its properties appear below the list. You can change anything here — no need to open AutoCAD's Page Setup Manager.

1. Select a layout. The properties panel shows: Name, Printer, Paper Size, Orientation, Plot Style, and Transparency.
2. Change the printer — the paper sizes list updates automatically to match the selected printer's available sizes.
3. Adjust paper size, orientation, plot style table (.ctb/.stb), and plot transparency as needed.
4. Change the layout name if needed — LayoutPilot validates for duplicates.
5. Click Apply to save all changes at once.

Duplicating a layout in AutoCAD is awkward — right-click, "Move or Copy", and hope it copies everything. LayoutPilot does a proper deep clone: all objects, all settings, including PSLTSCALE.

1. Select the source layout and click Duplicate.
2. Enter a name for the new layout. LayoutPilot suggests "Original Name (copy)" as default.
3. Click OK. LayoutPilot creates the new layout with:
   • All paper space objects (title block, viewports, annotations)
   • All Page Setup properties (printer, paper, style)
   • The correct PSLTSCALE setting from the source
4. Need more than one copy? Enter a count in the same dialog. LayoutPilot creates that many copies in one go, with automatically numbered names, and places them directly after the original in the tab order — not at the end, the way AutoCAD does.
5. The list refreshes. You stay on the source layout so you can duplicate again if needed.

Need to rename 20 layouts from "Sheet-01" to "A-01"? The Bulk Operations window lets you do it with find-and-replace, prefixes, and suffixes — with an editable preview that lets you fine-tune individual names before you commit.

1. Click Bulk Operations… at the bottom of the palette.
2. Select the layouts you want to rename. Use Filter to narrow the list, or click All / None / Invert to select quickly.
3. Click Rename…. A flyout panel appears with four fields:
   • Find — text to search for (e.g. "Sheet")
   • Replace — replacement text (e.g. "A")
   • Prefix — add before the name
   • Suffix — add after the name
4. The preview table updates in real time, showing two columns: Current (the original name) and New Name (the result after applying your pattern).
5. Double-click any cell in the "New Name" column to edit it manually. This lets you use patterns to get 90% of the way there, then fine-tune individual names that need special treatment.
6. Click Apply to rename all selected layouts — including any manual edits you made.

Need to create a set of copy layouts — for example, to prepare a revision set? Select the layouts, choose a suffix, and LayoutPilot creates all copies at once.

1. In Bulk Operations, select the layouts you want to duplicate.
2. Click Duplicate…. Enter a suffix (default: "_Copy").
3. The preview shows the new layout names. Verify they look right.
4. Click Apply. LayoutPilot deep-clones each selected layout with all objects and settings preserved.

One layout has the right printer, paper size, and plot style — and you want the others to match? Copy Settings lets you pick a source layout and push its properties to any number of targets.

1. In Bulk Operations, select the target layouts (the ones you want to update).
2. Click Copy Settings…. Choose the source layout from the dropdown — its current settings are shown for reference.
3. Check which properties to copy:
   • Printer — the plotter/driver configuration
   • Paper size — the canonical media name
   • Orientation — landscape or portrait
   • Plot style — the .ctb or .stb file
   • Transparency — plot transparency on/off
4. Click Apply. All checked properties are copied from the source to every selected target layout.

AutoCAD's layout tabs can be dragged, but it's slow and error-prone with many layouts. LayoutPilot gives you precise control: in the Sort group of the Bulk Operations window you can move selected layouts to the top, up, down, or to the bottom — or place them directly after a chosen layout.

1. In Bulk Operations, select the layouts you want to move.
2. Use the reorder buttons:
   • ⊤ Top — move to the beginning
   • ↑ Up — move one position up
   • ↓ Down — move one position down
   • ⊥ Bottom — move to the end
3. Or use Move After: pick a target layout and LayoutPilot places the selected layouts directly after it — handy for slotting a group into an exact spot without stepping it up or down one at a time.
4. The tab order updates immediately in both the Bulk Operations window and AutoCAD's layout tabs.

Deleting layouts one by one through AutoCAD's interface is tedious. LayoutPilot lets you delete from the palette or in bulk.

1. Single delete: select a layout in the palette and click the 🗑 button. Confirm the dialog.
2. Bulk delete: in Bulk Operations, select layouts and click Delete. Confirm the dialog.
3. LayoutPilot prevents you from deleting the last layout — AutoCAD requires at least one paper space layout.

In a drawing with dozens of layouts, it's easy to lose track of which ones print where. The Layouts button (in the Overviews group) gives you a clean summary: how your layouts are distributed across their plot settings — and lets you turn that summary into a selection.

1. Click Layouts… in the palette. A summary opens, grouping layouts by property — for example how many use each paper size, with the orientation shown as a sub-count underneath each size.
2. Scan it to spot the odd one out: a single layout on the wrong paper, a stray plot style, a portrait sheet in a landscape set.
3. Pick a value to build a selection from it — for example "all A3 layouts" — and carry that selection straight into Bulk Operations to act on exactly those layouts.

When you keep two sets of the same drawings — say a permit set at one scale and a contractor set at another — you want to be sure every sheet in each set carries the right scale. The Viewports overview lists every viewport with its layout and scale, so a stray sheet is easy to spot.

1. Click Viewports… in the Overviews group at the bottom of the palette. A modeless window opens, so it can stay open while you work in AutoCAD.
2. Click the Layout or Scale column header to sort. Sorting by scale groups equal scales together, so an odd one out in a set of sheets jumps out.
3. Double-click a layout name to activate that layout in AutoCAD — the row stays highlighted so you keep your place.