topic Betreff: automatically setup not printable layers to not be shown in viewports. in AutoCAD Forum

automatically setup not printable layers to not be shown in viewports.

leticia.campanelli — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:59:04 GMT

Hi there,

I am wondering if there is an automatic way to setup the non printable layers to not be shown in the viewports.

I usually simply freeze them in the viewport, but for this specific project it is boing time consuming.

thanks

Betreff: automatically setup not printable layers to not be shown in viewports.

cadffm — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:27:36 GMT

Hi,

not ootb, but with few lines code and the native command VPLAYER, no problem:

(defun c:AllNoPlotLayers2VPFRZ (/ a b) (setq b "") (while (setq a (tblnext "LAYER" (not a))) (if (zerop(cdr(assoc 290 (entget (tblobjname "LAYER" (cdr(assoc 2 a))))))) (setq b (strcat (cdr(assoc 2 (entget (tblobjname "LAYER" (cdr(assoc 2 a))))))"," b)) ) ) (command "_.VPLAYER" "_fr" b "_all" "") (princ) )

Betreff: automatically setup not printable layers to not be shown in viewports.

leticia.campanelli — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:57:56 GMT

feeling stupid. 😂

Thank you so much, but I have no idea how to use this code.

is it easy enough to explain it here?

Betreff: automatically setup not printable layers to not be shown in viewports.

cadffm — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 11:21:22 GMT

no problem.

For usual you have a .lsp (or /.fas./vlx) file with code inside, so you can drag&droop the file into your drawing or

load it by command APPLOAD (often you will see informations about loaded function names in commandline/Textscreen [F2]).

In the case here, you have the (Lisp)sourcecode only, so you have to create a .lsp file yourself:

Open EDITOR, copy&paste the code into, save as <Name of your choice, but often the part after "defun c:" is senseful 😉 > incl. the file extension .LSP

In this case here:

Save it to your new AutoCAD Custom Tools folder wherever\Tools\AllNoPlotLayers2VPFRZ.lsp

Now, you can load this file by drag&drop into your drawing or by APPLOAD command.

Note: In APPLOAD dialog, you can set up Acad to load this file into every file by open that file.

Betreff: automatically setup not printable layers to not be shown in viewports.

cadffm — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 11:49:20 GMT

AutoCAD help page [F1]

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-3B8EDFF1-A130-434F-B615-7F2EC04322EE

Re: automatically setup not printable layers to not be shown in viewports.

leticia.campanelli — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:10:22 GMT

thank you!!!!