Repathing ECW's to no path

[brianivery]

I have a group of files that were dxf’d in to AutoCAD. The files have accompanying ECW’s that I need to have attached with no path. The ECW’s are in the same file folder as the drawing files and can be accessed and managed in the Xref Manager. My goal is to avoid detaching and reattaching each ECW, because their georeferencing functionality dictates that they all have different insertion points as opposed to xref’s who in general are inserted at 0,0. To the best of my knowledge the normal repathing procedure performed on xref’s in the Xref Manger  dialogue box is ineffective in efforts of repathing ECW’s.

Thanks in advance

Brian Ivery

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

when I use the XRef dialog, right-click onto the ECW and use path==>remove (like you can see in my screenshot, sorry for German language) the repathing to "no path" works for me, now tried in Civil 3D 2015 SP2.

- alfred -

[doni49]

Uhhh -- what's an ECW?

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> what's an ECW?

it's a highly compressed raster file format (including the option to have the geographic position stored in the file's header.

>>>details<<<.

- alfred -

[brianivery]

Sorry, I hadn't noticed your question but I see that it has already been answered thoroughly.

[brianivery]

I did understand you to say that you are using Civil 3D 2015, correct? I am using Civil 3D 2012 and that capability is not available. I guess that is all the more reason for my employer to upgrade.

Thank you

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

>> I am using Civil 3D 2012 and that capability is not available

Well, this forum here handles AutoCAD questions from 2013 to 2015 😉

And yes, sorry, the repathing of XRef's was not available in 2012 (this was introduced in 2013 or 2014, don't know that at the moment).

- alfred -

[brianivery]

New to forums, hadn't noticed until you answered that I was in the wrong place but your answer was very helpful.