Can I unfreeze many layers at once?

[Happy Trails]

Hi,

I'm relatively unfamiliar with acad but must work with some fairly
large drawings which our customers send us.

I'd often like to explode a drawing which for some reason has been
saved as a single block on a layer.

I'm told I must unfreeze and turn on all layers then explode the block
to get all the objects showing on their individual layers.

Can anyone tell me the easy way to do this? Is there a group select
function for some/all layers to freeze/unfreeze/ turn on/off etc?

I also often have hundreds of instances of text and a block or crossed
lines representing an existing or proposed grade for a site
development. These are point elevations, but I have neither a "point"
nor an elevation - the block and the text are usually at zero
elevation. If I can get these into an exploded form I can use them in
Terramodel to do something useful, but I am wondering if I would be
better off learning a bit more acad and sorting them out in acad
first.

Any comments or suggestions on how to work with these?




Happy Trails To You

[Paul Turvill]

-LAYER [note the hyphen]
T
*
enter
enter
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"Happy Trails" <undisclosed@obscure.com> wrote in message
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[R.K. McSwain]

Happy Trails wrote: I'm told I must unfreeze and turn on all layers then explode the block to get all the objects showing on their individual layers. Can anyone tell me the easy way to do this? Is there a group select function for some/all layers to freeze/unfreeze/ turn on/off etc?

Use the command line version of -layer

-layer
t
*

on
*



--
R.K. McSwain
http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com

[Michael Bulatovich]

Great minds....

I run this a lot:

; Makes a layer visible, no ;
; matter what. ;
;
; October 4th, 2002 mb ;
(defun C:see (/ str)
(setq str (getstring "Type layer[s] to be made visible:"))
(command "_layer" "t" str "on" str "")
(princ)
)

--------------------

MichaelB
www.michaelbulatovich.ca


"R.K. McSwain" <rkmcswain@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:SH2Ze.1399$9E2.196@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com... Happy Trails wrote: I'm told I must unfreeze and turn on all layers then explode the block to get all the objects showing on their individual layers. Can anyone tell me the easy way to do this? Is there a group select function for some/all layers to freeze/unfreeze/ turn on/off etc? Use the command line version of -layer -layer t * on * -- R.K. McSwain http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com

[Happy Trails]

Thanks - with a little poking around I opened the Layer Properties
Manager - I think I can find everything I need to do for now in there.






On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:08:11 -0700, "Paul Turvill"
<nospam@turvill.com> wrote:
-LAYER [note the hyphen]T*enterenter___"Happy Trails" <undisclosed@obscure.com> wrote in messagenews:s579j19jdvpa1hea5jeo9vjnjekpg3pgm2@4ax.com... Can anyone tell me the easy way to do this? Is there a group select function for some/all layers to freeze/unfreeze/ turn on/off etc?

Happy Trails To You

[squib]

yes, layer manager is your friend, most of the time.

~squib