help with layers and xrefs
Jim Blair
It seems that when I open a drawing with an xref in it, all the layers from
the xref turn on and thaw. I tried to freeze the unwanted layers, save the
drawing, close then open it again. What I ended up with was all those
previously frozen layers thawed. Is there a way to keep this from
happening? Perhaps there's a lisp routine that will autofreeze specific
layers upon opening of a drawing?
Jeff Foster
It's even easier than that, set VISRETAIN=1. This will preserve your layer
settings, and I might add, almost to a fault.
Jeff Foster
The CAD Shack
http://www.cadshack.com
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:47:56 -0500, "Jim Blair" <ca...@buckeyeweb.com> wrote:
->It seems that when I open a drawing with an xref in it, all the layers from
->the xref turn on and thaw. I tried to freeze the unwanted layers, save the
->drawing, close then open it again. What I ended up with was all those
->previously frozen layers thawed. Is there a way to keep this from
->happening? Perhaps there's a lisp routine that will autofreeze specific
->layers upon opening of a drawing?
->
Matt Dillon
>It seems that when I open a drawing with an xref in it, all the layers from
>the xref turn on and thaw. I tried to freeze the unwanted layers, save the
>drawing, close then open it again. What I ended up with was all those
>previously frozen layers thawed. Is there a way to keep this from
>happening? Perhaps there's a lisp routine that will autofreeze specific
>layers upon opening of a drawing?
>
>
You need to have the VISRETAIN system variable set to 1 in the drawing
in which you have the files referenced. This will keep layer states
(as well as color and linetype) from updating when the reference file
is loaded.
By default it is set to 0. Go figure. Sort of like MIRRTEXT. Oh, yeah,
I like my text to be backwards. Shades of Timothy Leary <G>.
Matt Dillon
The D.C. CADD Company, Inc.