Viewport: Displaying only one Layer

[kerrylyon01]

Hi all

Getting in a real pickle and would really appreciate some guidance. I've watched the videos previously signposted about this topic but I still can't get this right. The video from Brandon I do not find helpful as he does not use the VPfreeze.

My original DWG was from an architect so has around 100 different layers in. I have frozen a significant number as we (interior design studio) don't require them all. I have a lighting layer which I would like to display on one layout paper space but not on the others. When I go into the viewport that I have set up for the lighting sheet I then have to turn off all layers; then select the layer I want, unthaw, do the VPfreeze. This means I have then turned off all layers and get in a mess about which ones need to be permanently turned off for the whole file. 

[h_s_walker]

Do not use freeze for the layers you want off. Turn them off. I would then also set the layers as no plot, so if you accidently turn them on again all you need to do is look for the no plot layers and turn them off.

To freeze the lighting layer you need to be in paper space, then at the command line type VPLAYER.

Command: VPLAYER
Enter an option [?/Color/Ltype/LWeight/TRansparency/Freeze/Thaw/Reset/Newfrz/Vpvisdflt]: f

Enter layer name(s) to freeze or <specify layers by object selection>: DIMENSIONS

Specify viewport(s) [All/Select/Current/eXcept current] <Current>: A
Enter an option [?/Color/Ltype/LWeight/TRansparency/Freeze/Thaw/Reset/Newfrz/Vpvisdflt]:

See the commands above. The layer I froze is DIMENSIONS, then just go into the viewport you want the lighting layer to show and thaw it.

[paullimapa · Accepted solution]

Freezing layers you never want to see is good

but to just freeze what you don’t want to see in a vport just use 

LAYFRZ (Command)

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACDLT/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-E7DB1E23-EB54-4DB7-B168-7725DFE6F100

Then you can select what you don’t want to see instead of relying on guessing what the layer name means and then turning that Off which impacts entire drawing