set xrefs to relative path

[peter.ashby]

My IT support have informed me that we are going to have to change our mapped drives in the near future along with an XP rollout, is there a way of setting the defaults in the xref insert to default to relative path, rather than full path as comes up at the moment, Can this also be set up as part of the network install process? or do I have to trek round my users and do this.
I understand that I can use the reference manager to manage the changeover of existing drawings (tens of thousands) but need to set up the system such that it will be independant of the drive mappings on the users workstations (our company has too many servers to assign each one with its own drive letter), thus the reason we want the paths independant of the drive mapping.
Any suggestions

[Anonymous]

is that something custom you've made? I can't find anything like that in
google for more recent than 2002... or perhaps my searching skills are just
woefully inadequate...
http://www.intelcad.com/pages/xrepath/


"Mark McDonough" wrote in message
news:4857475@discussion.autodesk.com...
We use a utility called XRP (Xref Relative Paths). I'm not sure about
AutoCAD 2005/2006, but with 2004 that we use, one can only apply a relative
path when first attaching the XREF. If the XREF already have full paths
incuding drive letter, AutoCAD has no automatic way to convert the full path
to a relative one. Also, the Image command does not have a provision for
relative paths.

So, we still use this XRP utility (works for IMAGE paths too), and our users
can just run XRP after attaching XREFs or IMAGEs, to quickly convert them to
use relative paths. Then one can copy/move a CAD folder tree to any drive
or other folder location, and all XREFs are found.

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Mark McDonough
Sasaki Associates
http://www.sasaki.com

wrote in message news:4856991@discussion.autodesk.com...
Our It use the high letters for common drives- W=work, U=user drive etc so
we may have to work in the middle somewhere.
of course that is always assuming we will be able to use removable drives,
all A drives are locked out unless you get a form signed and have a very
good reason for needing one, smae with CD drives etc.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I wrote the utility. I did a google search of "xrp lisp" and found it
posted at the following URL:
http://www.freecadapps.com/swcategory.php?page=category&offset=150&value=ACG
-BXT&archive2=0&orgvalue=ACG

I believe that version was coded to run in R14 and R2000. You can download
it just to try, and in Notepad, search for "15" and change it to "16", and
that'll get it running in R2004/2005. That version is a "tryware" version,
fully functional but will run 100 times. E-mail me at antennaria @ aol.com
if you have any questions.

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Mark McDonough

[Anonymous]

I should also mention, that the tryware version of XRP.lsp, written for
R14/2000i, is lacking a couple of enhancements found in the newer version
for 2004/2005.

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Mark McDonough