[Don Walke]

<div>Thanks for the reply. Although saving a layer to a tool in your toolbox, when using it on a new drawing it will create the layer in the new document, but will not bring along any layer hierarchy (parent/child relationships). I did browse through the blog posts that you linked to, and found an answer. Andrew Veggian suggested creating a blank document with the layer hierarchy intact to use as a template, then importing the new drawing . With the layer structure now set up, delete the template page and you a good to go.
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Adding a suggestion from another discussion, my template drawing is set up s a 120″ x 100″ page and I can copy and paste the relevant parts of drawing on the template. All of my take-off is now on one page. (scaled viewports are a must)

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