Originally Posted by
Wanderer
That sounds interesting Eric. I think I could use it for quite a few things.
As a Facility Manager, I'm frequently cleaning up existing drawings... with blocks and nested blocks and attributes, yada yada... sometimes I find myself adjusting my layers back and forth, trying to leave only the ones that I need (or don't need, rather) so that I can deal with them as necessary.
An example would be when taking a new Architectural Renovation plan and needing update my Complex's Base Floor Plans. I want to just copy and paste, but, first I go through and freeze all of the layers that I won't need (furniture, reflected ceiling grids, office equipment, room tags, dimensions, etc.), it is easy to overlook things, so I find myself repeatedly referring back to the layer manager.
It might also help with regards to xref layers being visually manipulated, as I normally filter them and exclude them from the layer dropdown... which forces me to use the layer manager to turn them off or on if I decide I need them.