Originally Posted by
tedg
I use LAYTRANS alot, and what's nice is you can force entities that are on wrong layers to a known layer, including forcing it's properties to ByLayer, etc.
Renaming the bad layer to a correct layer wouldn't work if the correct layer exists in the drawing already, and it wouldn't force the properties to ByLayer if you wanted to.
I use the settings within LAYTRANS to allow me to preview "what" is on each layer I'm translating, it gives me a better guess on what layer it "should" be on.
FWIW