I have a general question that I am going to post here as well as the customization newsgroup about LMAN in the express tools. I am trying to create a seperate LISP routine and in that routine I am trying to invoke the LMAN command line properties so that I can manipulate my layer states automatically. I have not been able to figure out the best way to manipulate the LMAN command since it is not an AutoCAD recognized command. Does anyone have any ides as to how this could work. Right now I am using the Layer Manager variable in the -LAYER command. If anyone has some insight I would appreciate it.