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Freeze and Thaw layers in a paperspace viewport

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This VB.NET example shows how to freeze or thaw a layer in a layout viewport using the FreezeLayersInViewport() and ThawLayersInViewport() methods. These methods take an ObjectIdCollection which is a collection of ObjectId for the layers to freeze or thaw.

By Wayne Brill

_    Public Sub VPFreezeandThaw()             Dim doc As Document = _            Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument        Dim ed As Editor = doc.Editor        Dim db As Database = doc.Database        Dim idLay As ObjectId        Dim idLayTblRcd As ObjectId        Dim lt As LayerTable             Dim tm As Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices. _               TransactionManager = db.TransactionManager        Dim ta As Transaction = tm.StartTransaction()             Try                 idLay = db.LayerTableId            lt = ta.GetObject(idLay, OpenMode.ForRead)                 If lt.Has("wbtest") Then                idLayTblRcd = lt.Item("wbtest")            Else                ed.WriteMessage _               ("Layer - wbtest not available")                Return            End If                 Dim idCol As ObjectIdCollection = _                             New ObjectIdCollection                 idCol.Add(idLayTblRcd)                 ' Check that we are in paper space             Dim vpid As ObjectId = _                            ed.CurrentViewportObjectId            If vpid.IsNull() Then                ed.WriteMessage("No Viewport current.")                Return            End If                 'VP need to be open for write             Dim oViewport As Viewport = _                tm.GetObject(vpid, OpenMode.ForWrite)                 If Not oViewport.IsLayerFrozenInViewport _                            (idLayTblRcd) Then                oViewport.FreezeLayersInViewport _                                (idCol.GetEnumerator())            Else                oViewport.ThawLayersInViewport _                                (idCol.GetEnumerator())            End If            ta.Commit()        Finally            ta.Dispose()        End Try    End Sub

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4 responses to “Freeze and Thaw layers in a paperspace viewport”

  1. Larry Daubenspeck Avatar
    Larry Daubenspeck

    Working with the AutoCad 2017 API…what happened to these viewport methods (IsLayerFrozenInViewport, FreezeLayersInViewport, ThawLayersInViewport)? They’re not there. Were they replaced?

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  2. Brad Avatar
    Brad

    What if
    I have more than 1 Tab? I want to freeze layers in tab1 but a different set of layers in tab2.
    This routine is unpredictable as to which layer is frozen/thawed in what layout

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  3. Brad Avatar
    Brad

    Hi Wayne
    After some debugging. It seams to ignor the first layer in my selectionset even though upon debug, I watch the function oViewport.ThawLayersInViewport(idCol.GetEnumerator()) and it is operational so, I included layer “0” and it is subsequentially the first layer in the Selectionset, therefor it is the one that gets ignored but I don’t care in this case.

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  4. Mr Toby Wilson Avatar
    Mr Toby Wilson

    The above code has been very useful in helping me to develop code to freeze layers in all viewports in all layouts except for one chosen viewport. However this is for paperspace of the viewport. I would like to do the same for modelspace for each viewport (reason is I don’t want to see some model space entities in some viewports). I have the following code which works for the first layout then doesn’t freeze any other viewport model space layers. lcoll is a collection of layouts created before the code, targetviewport is the viewport I don’t want layers frozen on, layerEnumerator is for the layers I want frozen.

    For Each l In lcoll
LayoutManager.Current.CurrentLayout = l.LayoutName
Dim viewportIds As ObjectIdCollection = l.GetViewports()
For Each vpId As ObjectId In viewportIds
Using acTrans As Transaction = db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction()
Dim viewport As Viewport = CType(acTrans.GetObject(vpId, OpenMode.ForWrite), Viewport)
If viewport.Number  1 Then 'ignore the first viewport (look only at floating ones)
If viewport  targetviewport Then
viewport.On = True
doc.Editor.SwitchToModelSpace() ' need to be in modelspace to freeze model space viewport layer
viewport.FreezeLayersInViewport(layerEnumerator)
doc.Editor.SwitchToPaperSpace()
End If
End If
acTrans.Commit()
End Using
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    Any assistance that can be given will be gratefully received.

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