Freeze button like autocad

[jimmyreeves]

A freeze button to allow classes to be frozen whilst other classes can be turned off, on, greyed. Alt selecting all classes allows you to turn all classes off on greyed but what if you want certain Classes permanently off or frozen?

[PVA - Admin]

Would this only be for classes, or would the idea of locking/freezing Layers be important as well?

[jimmyreeves]

Hello Jim,

Yes locking layers along with classes would prove useful.

However, the problem with classes is that there are generally more of them, so more time consuming to organise off/on. i generally have a class labelled 'off' where i dump items, particularly site survey data such as survey points, etc. i avoid deleting these items as they may be needed at some stage later. thanks jimmy

[zoomer]

Freeze or Lock Layers+Classes

+8,0e95

[Art V]

Freeze or Lock Layers+Classes

+8,0e95

How about both? :-)

[zoomer]

What is the difference between freezing and locking ?

Is there any ?

:confused:

[Art V]

freezing is hide and lock at the same time.

In Autocad it is possible to select objects on hidden layers through the command line with some commands. Besides that, at least in Autocad and the likes, objects on frozen layers are not taken into account when redrawing/rendering pages etc. (i.e. as if they don't exist at the moment until the layer is unfrozen).

Freezing of classes/layers works model space (design layers) as well as layouts (sheet layers)

For Vectorworks it might be useful to have a freeze option, so that objects on frozen layers are completely ignored for certain operations (.e.g rendering in viewports).

[zoomer]

ok.

so then,

+1 for Locking AND Freezing

[PVA - Admin]

For this request, I went with the explanations of various states as outlined here:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Layer-states-explained-for-AutoCAD-based-products.html