Done that. Have the SE windows set for manual rebuild. Am trying to update all the windows at the same time, using the rebuild all se windows, to their most current look with their appropriate layer combos.
AC is using the layer combo for the floor plan that is open.

Tom wrote:
If I update layouts through the drawing manager, will AC update views?

I does for me. Sometimes I swear, when all I needed was one (1) view to update in a layout. Have you tried this (and note, if you have your layer combos set up and saved wiht the views, they should all show the layers originally assigned)

s2art wrote:

Tom wrote:
...the view gets rebuilt, but with the layer state that is open on the floor plan at the time the command is executed.
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That shouldn't happen if you have saved Layer Combinations and have them assigned to the views. Have you done this?

it should: because you're not rebuilding views - you are rebuilding the model in the sect/elev windows. and to do that archicad uses the current layers, model view options, etc ...

if you want to automatically update your placed sect/elev views on layouts you will need to set them all to autorebuild and use the drawing manager to 'update'. archicad will then open each placed view in turn, rebuild with the correct view settings, and import the data into layout...

if - like me - your autorebuild sect/elevs take too long to rebuild whilst working and you have them set to 'manual rebuild' you will need to either change this setting for the update (remembering of course to switch it back); open each sect/elev view individually and choose 'rebuild from model' for each; or batch update by opening a specific view, selecting all other sect/elev views that contain identical view settings, and choosing 'rebuild selected from model'.

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I'm beginning to think the problem is Navigator confusion. Maybe you should check out the Navigator's three modes a little more, in your projcet, and in the Help files and docs.
the leftmost contains icons to click on, to open windows for available window modes: floor plans/stories, sections and elevations placed on the floor plan, and cameras placed on the floor plan. These are "generic" in the sense that they accept the current layer set from the last opened window.

The next pane/mode of the Navigator shows Saved and named views. You decide what settings you save with them, for example layer combinations. If you double-click on one of these, it will open with its previously set layer combo, not the one you had in the last opened window.

And the third pane/mode of the Navigator shows Layouts. if you double-click they oppen, but if you just click on them you will see what Saved Views each layout contains, if any.

And if you open the Organizer, you get two open navigator panes at once, and you can drag saved views into the layouts you want.

Adalbert wrote:
How fast or slow is 10 rebuilding views compared with 9 publishing PMKs.

I ask this because in 9 one could not work with linked views. It's much to slow for a decent job (30,000 sq ft 3 story mixed building with 50 30x42 packed drawigs)

I've found them to be noticeably faster. I never thought I would leave my beloved PMKs behind, but this release changed my mind.

Yes, it's still buggy. Once in a while when updating from an outside file, the update will crash the session running the outside file. I've never had a problem could not be solved by quitting all sessions of Archicad, reopening the Layout file, and hitting "Update" again.

I just completed a 150,000 SF, 3 story building (50,000 SF / floor) and had very few problems with it.