Executes AMLAYER command options from the command line.
List of Prompts
The following prompts are displayed.
Layer
Provides options to create, delete, and rename layers and layer definitions, change their properties, or add layer descriptions
- ?
- Displays a list of layers and layer definitions, showing their names, states, color numbers, linetypes, lineweights, and whether they are externally dependent layers.
- Layer names - Performs a wild card search on names and lists the matching layers and layer definitions. For example, if you only want to display layers that start with the letters GEAR, enter GEAR*.
- Make
- Creates a layer from a layer definition and makes it current.
- Layer name - Specifies the layer to create. If you specify the name of an existing layer definition, a layer by that name is created, using the properties defined in the layer definition. You can precede the name of the layer definition with the name of a layer group (“Group1-AM_5”,for example) so that an instance of the layer is created on that layer group. If you enter the name of an existing layer, that layer is made the current layer.
- Set
- Specifies a new current layer but does not create the layer if it does not exist. If the layer exists but is turned off, it is turned on and made current. A frozen layer cannot be made current.
- New
- Creates a layer from a layer definition.
- Layer name - Specifies the layer to create. You can specify multiple layer definition names, separating each name with a comma. You can precede the name of the layer definition with the name of a layer group (“Group1-AM_5”,for example) so that an instance of the layer is created on that layer group.
- Freeze
- Freezes mechanical layers, making objects on them invisible and excluding them from regeneration and plotting.
- Thaw
- Thaws frozen mechanical layers, making objects on them visible and available for regeneration and plotting.
- Lock
- Locks mechanical layers, preventing editing of objects on them.
- Unlock
- Unlocks mechanical layers, permitting editing of objects on them.
- Selection set
- Selects the objects on mechanical layers, permitting subsequent commands to use them as a selection set via the Previous keyword.
- Highlight
- Highlights all objects on the layers you select.
Object key
Looks up the layer assigned to an object, and sets it as current.
- ?
- Lists of object types and object keys.