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. At the top, a dropdown shows all layers in the drawing, sorted by how many viewports are on each. The recommended layer is pre-selected.
3. You can pick a different target layer, or click New to create a fresh one (automatically set to non-plotting).
4. Per viewport: Jump to see it, or Fix to move it to the target layer.
5. Click Fix All to move every flagged viewport to the target 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.

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 All button in the dashboard is the nuclear option — it fixes everything it can in one go.

1. Click ⚡ Fix All 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 issues are not included in Fix All — those require manual correction. If there are layer issues but no clear favorite layer, HealthCheck tells you to pick a target layer 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 small tabs or typing layout names. LayoutPilot gives you a scrollable, searchable list with instant navigation.

1. Click a layout name in the list. LayoutPilot switches to that layout immediately.
2. If Zoom to fit 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.
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. You can change everything 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 size list updates automatically.
3. Adjust paper size, orientation, plot style table (.ctb/.stb), and plot transparency as needed.
4. Change the layout name if needed — LayoutPilot checks 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 everything comes along. LayoutPilot makes a true deep copy: 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, page setup settings, and the correct PSLTSCALE value.
4. The list refreshes. You remain 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 this with find-and-replace, prefixes, and suffixes — with a live editable preview.

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.
3. Click Rename…. A panel appears with four fields: Find, Replace, Prefix, and Suffix.
4. The preview table updates in real time, showing current and new names side by side.
5. Double-click a cell in the "New Name" column to edit it manually.
6. Click Apply to rename all selected layouts.

Need to create a revision set? Select the layouts, choose a suffix, and LayoutPilot makes all the 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 correct.
4. Click Apply. LayoutPilot makes a deep copy of each layout with all objects and settings preserved.

One layout has the right settings — push its properties to any number of targets.

1. In Bulk Operations, select the target layouts.
2. Click Copy settings…. Choose the source layout from the dropdown.
3. Check which properties to copy: Printer, Paper size, Orientation, Plot style, Transparency.
4. Click Apply. All checked properties are copied to every target layout.

Dragging AutoCAD's layout tabs is slow with many layouts. LayoutPilot gives you precise control: top, up, down, bottom.

1. In Bulk Operations, select the layouts you want to move.
2. Use the reorder buttons: ⊤ Top, ↑ Up, ↓ Down, ⊥ Bottom.
3. The tab order updates immediately in both Bulk Operations and AutoCAD's layout tabs.

Delete from the palette (individually) or in bulk. LayoutPilot prevents deleting the last layout.

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