Thread: Layer Question
View Single Post
Old 09-29-2009, 10:00 PM   #3 (permalink)
fryeguy
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Novato (20 miles north of San Francisco)
Posts: 445
fryeguy is on a distinguished road
Default

2010 allows the layer manager to remain open and dynamically control layer attributes. Shortcuts for layers are pretty simple to write scripts for. -LA is the command shortcut for layer manager. A good way to develop scripts is to toggle off dialog boxes using FILEDIA <0>. This lets you run command line commands that would otherwise cause dialogs to open. I use a couple of simple scripts to create a bunch of preformatted layers for manipulating CAD Xrefs received from architects, lighting designers, etc. I have one that saves the current file as an older file format compatible with Visio import and then closes the file.

Anyway, I'm probably preaching to the choir.
fryeguy is offline   Reply With Quote