Changing multiple layers

[ajcarr4]

I am trying to change multiple objects under a number of layers and put them into one layer. I have exploded all the blocks out. I select everything i want to change and change it in the layer bit. While everything is selected it says the layer has changed but when i select a single line it is still the old layer with the old properties (colours etc.).

 

Any idea where i am going wrong? I would imagine one of my basic settings is not right.

[ReMark]

I'm curious as to why you would explode all blocks.

[Tiger]

.... I select everything i want to change and change it in the layer bit......

 

What Layer bit? A picture is worth a thousand words here.

[ajcarr4]

I'm curious as to why you would explode all blocks.

 

It is an architectural drawing with a lot of stuff i dont need, if i dont explode the blocks i cant get rid of all the junk layers without editing the blocks and there is hundreds of them. Unless i an and i didn't know it?

[ajcarr4]

What Layer bit? A picture is worth a thousand words here.

 

 

That layer bit. So i have a load of lines, plines etc. all different layers selected. I then click the layer i want but they do not change to that layer. None of the layers are locked.

[Tiger]

Ah That layer-bit. Well, as far as I know, that should work. Have you tried useing the CHANGE command? Is the layer an X-ref layer?

[ajcarr4]

Yes, it seems to let me change it if i select a small group of lines, but as soon as i go for a lot it will not change. No its not an X-ref layer. It has never happened before but i know autocad randomly likes to change settings on its own.

[Tiger]

if you say it works for smaller portions, I wonder if it is only lines and plines if you go for all?

[ajcarr4]

the strange thing is, if i select the lot and change them to the layer i want it does say they have been changed. And if i select it all again it says it has been changed, but when i select the individual lines none have been changed.

 

Everything is selected and i click on the layer i want it all to be under.

 

It claims everything has changed.

 

When deselect everything and click on a single line the layer and the properties have not changed.

[ReMark]

Try this test. Select about a half-dozen of these stubborn entities and use the CHANGE command instead. What happens?

[ajcarr4]

If i select a half-dozen it works, but selecting more then that it does the same a before.

[ajcarr4]

also note if all the lines (as many as i want) are already under one layer it works and i can change the layer, but if i isolate a single layer and select all (including the locked layers that shouldnt change) nothing changes, not even the isolated layer.

[Tiger]

I haven't tried this, but I would guess if objects that you want to move are on locked or frozen layers, then the whole operation is scrapped. It's an all or nothing move. Again, a guess - I don't have a file handy to test this.

[ajcarr4]

Sorry i meant that i selected everything on the drawing with one layer isolated, the last time i tried the isolated layer could be put under another layer and everything else remained the same. This time the isolated layer never changed.

[Tiger]

Sorry i meant that i selected everything on the drawing with one layer isolated, the last time i tried the isolated layer could be put under another layer and everything else remained the same. This time the isolated layer never changed.

 

huh? You lost me there