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Burning xrefs with right path

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Message 1 of 10
wingroup
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Burning xrefs with right path

When archiving our AutoCAD work, my organization burns them to a disk. Unfortunately, the xrefs don't have the correct path associated with them. I have tried to go back and burn the correct path but I'm having issues getting my disk to be re-writable. I'm just curious if anyone else does the same thing. Does anyone have a good way of saving the xrefs to disk in the right location so they don't have to be re-routed each time the drawing is used from the disk?

Thanks
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Message 2 of 10
hpcchan
in reply to: wingroup

the quickest and easiest way is to bind the x-refs to the drawing before you burn the drawings to cd's.

or you can recreate the same directory structure on the cd before you burn. a little more tedious, but effective. of course, if your x-ref's are located on different drives, then you may have to do some temporary shuffling before doing this.

hope this helps.
h. chan
Message 3 of 10
AndrewMac
in reply to: wingroup

We have a policy of not pathing the xrefs, and all files go in the same directory, (for that project). This way autocad finds them as long as they are all in the one directory, on CD or not. As to re-burning CD, I hope you don't mean the same (used) CD unless its a CD-RW.
regards Andrew
Message 4 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: wingroup

why xref when you can copy and paste, and use model
space!!????


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Steven O
San Antonio, Texas
Windows 2000 Pro
AMD
Processor (1GHz)
512 MB RAM
Matrox Millenium G450 Dual Head
2 ~ 19"
monitors
Acad 2002 with LD3
System Printer Drivers


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When
archiving our AutoCAD work, my organization burns them to a disk.
Unfortunately, the xrefs don't have the correct path associated with them. I
have tried to go back and burn the correct path but I'm having issues getting
my disk to be re-writable. I'm just curious if anyone else does the same
thing. Does anyone have a good way of saving the xrefs to disk in the right
location so they don't have to be re-routed each time the drawing is used from
the disk?

Thanks

Message 5 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: wingroup

of course i am just
kidding....................................


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Steven O
San Antonio, Texas
Windows 2000 Pro
AMD
Processor (1GHz)
512 MB RAM
Matrox Millenium G450 Dual Head
2 ~ 19"
monitors
Acad 2002 with LD3
System Printer Drivers


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

why xref when you can copy and paste, and use
model space!!????


--
Steven O
San Antonio, Texas
Windows 2000 Pro
AMD
Processor (1GHz)
512 MB RAM
Matrox Millenium G450 Dual Head
2 ~ 19"
monitors
Acad 2002 with LD3
System Printer Drivers


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
When
archiving our AutoCAD work, my organization burns them to a disk.
Unfortunately, the xrefs don't have the correct path associated with them. I
have tried to go back and burn the correct path but I'm having issues
getting my disk to be re-writable. I'm just curious if anyone else does the
same thing. Does anyone have a good way of saving the xrefs to disk in the
right location so they don't have to be re-routed each time the drawing is
used from the disk?

Thanks

Message 6 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: wingroup

Are you using 2000i?

If so, try looking at ETRANSMIT

Preserve directory structure and Remove paths from xrefs & images are
two of the features that can be toggled on/off.

If not, think about upgrading to 2002...

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wingroup wrote:

> When archiving our AutoCAD work, my organization burns them to a disk.
> Unfortunately, the xrefs don't have the correct path associated with
> them. I have tried to go back and burn the correct path but I'm having
> issues getting my disk to be re-writable. I'm just curious if anyone
> else does the same thing. Does anyone have a good way of saving the
> xrefs to disk in the right location so they don't have to be re-routed
> each time the drawing is used from the disk?
>
> Thanks
Message 7 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: wingroup

How about using relative paths with your Xref's intead of absolute paths?
That way it doesn't matter what drive letter the drive is. One period (.)
means current directory and two periods (..) means go one directory up the
directory tree, anyways, play with it, it might help you.



matthew g.
Message 8 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: wingroup

where do the periods go? (..) (.) before the xref? or what help topics have
no help at all on the relative, absolute xref subject........

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Steven O
San Antonio, Texas
Windows 2000 Pro
AMD Processor (1GHz)
512 MB RAM
Matrox Millenium G450 Dual Head
2 ~ 19" monitors
Acad 2002 with LD3
System Printer Drivers

wrote in message
news:A15A97178938C8C352E32D47568FFBE3@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> How about using relative paths with your Xref's intead of absolute paths?
> That way it doesn't matter what drive letter the drive is. One period (.)
> means current directory and two periods (..) means go one directory up the
> directory tree, anyways, play with it, it might help you.
>
>
>
> matthew g.
Message 9 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: wingroup

I couldn't find anything in help either or I would have pasted it into my
message, so here is a brief explanation:


If you have a directory structure like this:


C:\JobName\Arch\(arch. dwgs. in here)
C:\JobName\Struc\(struc. dwgs. in here)


and you want to Xref the Architectural base into the Structural plans then
you could enter a path that looks like this:


.\Arch\DwgName.dwg


this tells AutoCAD to go up one directory into the JobName directory and
look for a folder called Arch and then look for the drawing named
DwgName.dwg, does that make sense?

You can do it multiple times too, suppose you wanted to Xref something
that is directly on the C drive (bad idea, used here for example
purposes), your path would look like this:


.\..\DwgName.dwg


If that needs clarification let me know and I'll try again, I wish the
Help file at least mentioned this but I couldn't find a peep about it.




matthew g.
Message 10 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: wingroup

here is a suggestion,

 

save all drawings that have xrefs with the
projectname variable set before you burn.

 

When you go to retrieve a drawing from the CD, set
your tools-options-files-projects and add/revise the path that represents the
given project name to the correct path on the cd

 

HTH

 

Jamie

 

 

 


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When
archiving our AutoCAD work, my organization burns them to a disk.
Unfortunately, the xrefs don't have the correct path associated with them. I
have tried to go back and burn the correct path but I'm having issues getting
my disk to be re-writable. I'm just curious if anyone else does the same
thing. Does anyone have a good way of saving the xrefs to disk in the right
location so they don't have to be re-routed each time the drawing is used from
the disk?

Thanks

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