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Sometimes when you create a detail view and then later move the base view that the detail is associated with, you find that your detail view is not where you expected it to be. Here is a way to cor... Read more
Tip 2270: Freeze Layers Currently Not Visible In an attempt to make drawings regenerate faster, Gordon Reichhardt developed Freeze Layers Currently Not Visible. Load the LISP code and type Frz... Read more
Tips 2252 and 2253: Object's Layer Off and Object's Layer Freeze The next two tips -- Object's Layer Off and Object's Layer Freeze, come from Francis Gamotis; however, he notes that coworkers ... Read more
Tips 2252 and 2253: Object's Layer Off and Object's Layer Freeze The next two tips -- Object's Layer Off and Object's Layer Freeze, come from Francis Gamotis; however, he notes that coworkers ... Read more
Tip 2248: Layer Manipulation Robert Gardner's Layer Manipulation is a solution for "getting rid of those pesky layer-name prefixes" when xref objects are inserted in a drawing. This ... Read more
Tip 2249: Force All to Layer Zero Force All to Layer Zero comes from a Hot Tip Harry Discussion Forum guru, Leonid Nemirovsky. Other functions out there let you change layers, but this one goe... Read more
Tip 2239: Layer Table to Excel Pedro Ferreira's Layer Table to Excel utility creates a Microsoft Excel worksheet that contains a complete dump of the current drawing's layer table. For this cu... Read more
Tip 2221: Copy Objects to Layer Theodorus Winata wrote Copy Objects to Layer, which does two things at once -- and with a nice style, too. The tip contains a dialog box file (DCL) as well as t... Read more
We will start with a tip from Jim Himes, Rename Layers from a List (Tip #2178). Once you load the LISP code into AutoCAD, type RENLAY to rename a set of layers with new names based on information i... Read more