Block creation and locked layers

Rob Phillips

anyone have any idea why locked layers are included in selected items to become a block or some way to exclude them?

Patrik Sparrman

Not shure if this is your problem but I only use Freeze/Thaw these days. On/off does not lock layers and if you pick a window if may also affect OFF layers. I struggled with this way back.

Torsten Moses

"Locked" layer means you can not modify an entity on such layer ...
creating a block is creating a new block definition, with selected source entities ... those are copied to block definition content :
hence, that is a "read-only" operation of selected entities, they are not modified at all.

maybe this explains the difference ?

Joe Dunfee

 You can also create objects on locked layers.

-joe