If you need to create viewports and the hide some of the layers in some specific viewports, here is the solution. To show you how I am going to use one of my drawings but you can apply this knowledge to your own projects.

If you want to know how I made the detail of the column appear automatically by changing the viewport scale watch this video    • How to make a detail appear in only o...  .

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