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182 | Chapter 14 Control the Properties of Objects

To set Layer Previous tracking on or off

1 At the Command prompt, enter layerpmode.

The current Layer Previous tracking status is displayed.

2 Enter on to turn on Layer Previous tracking of layer settings, or enter off

to turn off tracking.

Command line

LAYERPMODE

Filter and Sort the List of Layers

You can control which layer names are listed in the Layer Properties Manager

and sort them by name or by property, such as color or visibility.

Sometimes you may want only certain layers to be listed in the Layer Proper-

ties Manager. Use layer filters to limit the layer names listed. You can filter

layer names based on

■ Whether layers are set to be plotted

■ Layer names, colors, linetypes, lineweights, and plot styles

■ Whether layers are turned on or off

■ Whether layers are frozen or thawed in the current viewport

■ Whether layers are locked or unlocked

You can filter layers by using wild-card searches. For example, if you want to

display only layers that start with the word mech, you can enter mech* in the

Layer Name list and then press

ENTER. You can use wild-card characters to

rename groups of named objects. For example, to rename the group of layers

STAIR$LEVEL-1, STAIR$LEVEL-2, STAIR$LEVEL-3 to S_LEVEL-1, S_LEVEL-2, S_LEVEL-

, enter stair$* under Old Name and s_* under Rename To. See the table at

the end of this topic.

You can also filter layers inversely, which is useful for viewing layers contain-

ing all but one property. For example, if all the site plan information for a

drawing is contained in multiple layers that include the word site as a part of

the layer names, you can easily display all information except site plan

information by entering *site* as an invert filter.

The Named Layer Filters list displays default filters and any named filters that