create new layer not visible in existing viewports

hi all

anyone know a magic way of adding a new layer without it showing up in all the paperspace viewports i have already created?

sort of like the 'frozen in new layers' box, but for existing VPs. follow?

thanks

AFAIK, you can either Freeze the layer using -LAYER Command, etc., or to use -VPLAYER Command (for each Viewport) to do same... Otherwise, custom code is needed.

Cheers

hi all

 

anyone know a magic way of adding a new layer without it showing up in all the paperspace viewports i have already created?

 

sort of like the 'frozen in new layers' box, but for existing VPs. follow?

 

thanks

I don't know if you have that button in 2009 but I think it's been there a while now.

That's two new things I've learned today!

dammit! thanks blackbox.

just to clarify, i want to draw some new geometry in my model space. but this must not show up in any of the existing layouts, because they are perfect!

i will then create a new layout with a viewport that does show the new geometry. for this reason i cannot just freeze the layer off completely.

the only workarounds i can think of are:

1 draw the new geometry in paperspace - not very tidy!

2 do some sort of xref which you only load when you view that layout thing. terrible!

hah glenn just ssen your post after posting the above. thanks so much i will try.........

perfect, thanks all.

glen: looks like i owe you a beer. shall i bring it round?!

rob: what was the other thing? if you didn't know it, chances are i won't!

Some of the new enhancements to the command line. Not available in 2009.

See:

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?89412-F2-Doesnt-jump-to-command-line&p=612219#post612219

perfect, thanks all.

 

glen: looks like i owe you a beer. shall i bring it round?!

Thanks mines an ale!

FWIW -

Layer Manager silently invokes the appropriate LAYER and VPLAYER Command to do what you manually perform within the Palette's UI.

This can be observed using MgdDbg Events; here's a quick video demonstration.

Cheers