When I bring in a slab thru ANNOTATE > SLAB ; Slab is going under a random layer under a certain view which is activated. Is there any way to direct a slab to a certain layer under view?
No, there is no way to get Draw to do what Draft used to do. Draw was originally meant to be operated without the Draw explorer, which is also why it places labels and other elements not randomly as you suggest but in a certain layer. It will also always place labels under the view which is selected as the current owner.
What's wrong with layers?
PDMS was developed in the 70's and they decided to have "layers".
Then all the other CAD applications followed.
In Draft (and Draw) they are just storage places for labels, dimensions etc etc.
They could have called them "folders", "boxes" and so on.
But they called them layers.
So I am trying to put the Instrumentation Slabs under dedicated Instrumentation layer and equipemnt slabs under equipment layer under so on under each view. But the question is : when I use ANNOTATE > SLAB the generated slab goes into random layer ; even it is not going to our current layer !
I already answered that, there is no way to get Draw to do that out of the box. This is true for most of the functions in the ribbon bar, they do not use the current element.
So I am trying to put the Instrumentation Slabs under dedicated Instrumentation layer and equipemnt slabs under equipment layer under so on under each view.
May I ask you why?
Anyway...
One possibility is using Autotagging functionality.
You can have one autotagging rule per layer.
And you can create as many layers as you want.
One rule for instruments-->Instrument layer
One rule for equipment-->Equipment Layer
and so on...
