What are unreconciled layers and how to fix them?

Have you got the message when opening or plotting a drawing in CAD?

What are unreconciled layers

Unreconciled layers are layers that have been added to the drawing or to attached Xrefs since the layer list was last plotted, saved, etc. The CAD system gives the prompt to let users to check the newly added Xrefs and if all the layers are needed so you can turn off or freeze those layers that are no longer needed.

The popped up dialog box is just a reminder letting you to check your layers, to prevent the CAD system from popping similar dialog box, there are two ways:

• Check unreconciled layers, and set layers to reconciled layers when you need them

Open the Layer Manager, there is a filter in the upper left corner, click the filter and all the unreconciled layers will be displayed on the right, shown as below,

Look at the layer list on the right and see if they need to be turned off or freezed, then you can select all the layers and right click to reconcile layers, and those selected layers will disappear.

• You can just ignore the popped up message

There are some system variables that control if users will get the message and when the unreconciled layers message will pop up.

1. LAYEREVAL

The LAYEREVAL system variable is used to control whether to evaluate the layer list for new layres when added to the drawing.

It has three values:

0: off, which means the system will not detect

1: detect when to add new layers of Xrefs to the drawing

2: detect when to add new layers to the drawing and Xrefs.

So if you don’t want the CAD system to detect new layers, check enter LAYERVAL and press Enter key.

2. LAYERNOTIFY

The LAYERNOTIFY system variable is used to specify when a warning displays when unreconciled new layers are found.

0:off
1: plot
2: on
4: load/reload/attach xrefs
8: restore layer state
16: save
32: insert
Note: if specified the LAYEREVALCTL system variable to be 0, the settings of LAYEREVAL and LAYERNOTIFY will be ignored.

3. LAYEREVAL

The LAYEREVALCTL system variable is used to control the unreconciled new layer filter list for evaluating new layers in the layer properties manager.

0: disabled the new layer evaluating and notification
1: enable new layer evaluating by LAYEREVAL settings
Note: if specified the LAYEREVALCTL system variable to be 0, the settings of LAYEREVAL and LAYERNOTIFY will be ignored.

If you don’t feel detecting new layers useful, you can just turn it off, which saves you the trouble of setting and reconciling layers.