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someone, somewhere, must be an architectural draftsperson and require the equivalent of a layer management command (lman)...is it built into the layer dialog box and I am too simple to find it? How else can I flip between floor plans, framing, foundation, etc. w/o manually selecting 4 dozen layers each time. I guess I cannot believe they would mimic Autocad so well, then drop the brain on this. An earlier post brought forth a couple of LISP answers...but I'm looking for the Intellicad equivalent on this. Anyone who can salvage my desire to buy this program gets a free case of beer...or Yoo-hoo if underage.

Bricscad at least has save and restore layer state functions, but though it issues from one command it does each layer individually which is slow in a biggish drawing. I use scripts and layer names contrived so they can be switched in bulk as far as possible, like BW2, BW3, BW5 etc can be referred to as BW*. That's the best I have been able to do.

I created something in VBA some time ago when I was still using ICAD 2001. You can find at http://www.hydrologica.hu/ukicad.html

direct shortcut: http://www.hydrologica.hu/layersb.zip

I does "SAVE and RETRIEVE your set of visible layers". These commands can be accessed with these shortcuts:

^c^c^c-vbarun;LayerTools.SaveLayerListFile
^c^c^c-vbarun;LayerTools.LoadLayerListFile

You can use these in any customisation of your toolbars or menu.

You'll need to have a PRO version of IntelliCAD that supports Visual Basic for Applicationt.

Unfortunately you'll be downloading a "CommonProjects.vbi"-file that must replace your own version of this file.

Hope it helps, Gerrit

[This message has been edited by gkiers (edited 08-04-2004).]