LayFrz – Bricsys Support and Help Center

Freezes the layers associated with entities that you select in the drawing (short for "layer freeze").

Note: Use the Layer command to thaw specific layers that were frozen with this command, or else use the LayThw command to thaw all layers in the drawing.

Accessing the Command

: LayFrz

Prompts you in the command bar:

Current setting: Viewports=Freeze, Block nesting level=Block
Select an entity on the layer to be frozen or [Settings/Undo]: (Pick an entity, or choose an option)

Entities in set: 1

Select an entity on the layer to be frozen or [Settings/Undo]: (Select more entities, or press Enter to exit the command)

This layer has been frozen :<LayerName>
This layer has been frozen :<LayerName>
...
This layer has been frozen :<LayerName>

Note: The current layer cannot be frozen. When one or more entities on the current layer has been selected, BricsCAD reports: Cannot freeze layer: <LayerName>. It is the current layer.

Command Options

Option

Description

Select an entity on the layer to be frozen

Selects a single entity whose layer should be frozen. The prompt repeats itself until you press Enter so that you can freeze more than one layer.

Settings

Specifies the tricky case of how layers holding viewports and blocks (and xrefs) should be frozen; prompts you:

Enter setting type for [Viewports/Block selection] - (enter an option):

Viewports - specifies how viewports should be frozen; prompts you:
In paper space viewport use [Freeze/Vpfreeze] - (type F or V.)
- Freeze - freezes layers in all viewports (default)
- Vpfreeze - freezes layers in the current viewport only
Block selection - specifies how blocks and xrefs should be frozen; prompts you:
Enter Block Selection nesting level [Block/Entity/None] - (type B, E, or N.)
- Block
  - freezes the layer the block has been inserted on (= same as None)
  - for Xrefs it freezes the layer of the selected entity within the xref.
- Entity - freezes all layers associated with entities in the block or xref (entities that make up blocks might be on different layers)
- None - freezes the layer of the block, and ignores other layers associated with entities and nested block

Related Commands

Layer - creates layers and changes their properties in the Drawing Explorer.

-Layer - creates layers and changes their properties in the command bar.

LayerState - saves and restores layer states.

LayThw - thaws all frozen layers.

LayIso - isolates layers associated with selected entities.

LayLck - locks layers associated with selected entities.

LayUlk - unlocks layers associated with selected entities.

LayOff - turns off layers associated with selected entities.

LayOn - turns on all layers that have been turned off.

Accessing the Command

Command Options

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