Freeze entity/object in current viewport

Any ideas on how to select an entity/object and have only that entity/object freeze in the current viewport? I found a routine (below) that will freeze just the entities/objects but it does it in all viewports. Thanks for any input.

ps- thanks to Dean Saadallah for the following routine.
http://www.pendean.com

;Freeze entities
(defun c:frz ()
(prompt "\nSelect items you want frozen \n")
(setq frzblk (ssget))
(setq a (tblsearch "block" "freezeblk"))
(if (= a nil)
(command "block" "freezeblk" "0,0" frzblk "")
)
(if (/= a nil)
(command "block" "freezeblk" "Y" "0,0" frzblk "")
)
)

;un-freeze entities
(defun c:ufrz ()
(command "insert" "freezeblk" "scale" "1" "0,0" "0")
(command "explode" "last")
)

 

You can't "freeze" an *entity/object*; you can, however, put it on it's own
layer, then freeze that *layer* in a viewport using the VPLAYER command. The
routine Dean supplied simply creates a block of the objects you want to
disappear, and removes the original objects from the visible database.
"Thawing" them consists of re-inserting the block and exploding it. AFAIK,
there's no way to do this on a viewport-by-viewport basis.
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entity/object freeze in the current viewport? I found a routine (below) that
will freeze just the entities/objects but it does it in all viewports.
Thanks for any input.

 

I'm not certain it is possible to modify an object's
visibility property (regardless of layer) on a per
viewport basis.


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entity/object freeze in the current viewport?

 

Thank you Paul and Jason for your replies.

I was wondering if maybe Dean's routine could be enhanced to create the block of the object just in the current viewport and then remove it like the routine does just in the current viewport.

Thanks for reading.
-Phil

 

No, as we replied earlier, it can NOT be done on a viewport-by-viewport
basis.
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block of the object just in the current viewport and then remove it like the
routine does just in the current viewport.

 

you could modify it to create a unique layer name (perhaps based on vp id
like solprof does)
then put the block on that layer, then freeze that layer in that vp only as
Paul has suggested

block of the object just in the current viewport and then remove it like the
routine does just in the current viewport.