Incompatible xrefs

[tony.burgess]

Hi There

We're having a problem with xrefs at the minute. 4 of us are working on a project. 3 of us are working on 2008 with the 4th working on 2011.

All of us have Autocad set to save to 2004 format.

When the 2008 users access a drawing some - not all - of the xrefs may - or may not - be called up as incompatible.

Despite the 2011 user being set to save as 2004 the xrefs that are incompatible will alos be incompatible when we try to open them directly

IS this a glitch or is there some subtle save thing going on with 2011?

any help appreciated

Tony

[Charles_Shade]

Are there entities created in the 2011 seat that are not readily available in the 2008 seats?

MULTILEADER's come to to mind.

Some vertical content that 2008 can't handle perhaps?

[Patchy]

Why not save as 2007 and see.

[nestly2]

Can you post a screenshot of the xref error message?

[pendean]

If the 2011 user did a REFEDIT on the XREF, it will get upgraded to 2010 format. No setting in AutoCAD will stop that from happening. Not a glitch, you need to ask your 2011 user to stop using REFEDIT until the 2008 users upgrade to the same level playing field.

Otherwise, there is no way 2011 will save to 2010 on it's own if it is set to a lower format: watch and work with your 2011 user more closely, there is always a trigger. No glitch, user action is the culprit.

[tony.burgess]

This is the alert

the 2011 user does refedit and that's an interesting point- we'll keep an eye on it. Problem is he isn't working on any of the xrefs that are causing the problem so hasn't been refediting those. And he hasn't been working on them at all so there shouldn't be a multileader issue. MAybe an attachment / overlay problem?

And we need to save to 2004 because of the structural engineers

[pendean]

Someone is actively changing DWG formats: the program only does it under very specific circumstances only and they require user activation. It has never done it alone.

As a test, put the 2011 user on 2008, and domeone rlse or you use 2011 for a week and try to replicate the problem. OR Disable REFEDIT and WBLOCK commands for that week in 2011 using UNDEFINE command.