Does anyone else experience this in Civil 3D 2008 SP2 or later? When attaching an external reference as an overlay WITH relative path, AutoCAD warns that "relative path can not be assigned", and then defaults to full path. However, if I go to the xref manager and manually change the saved path to a relative notation (ie .\ or ..\), the path changes to relative and stays that way with no problems. Why on earth would AutoCAD insist that it's not possible and then allow it. This is ludicrous. I can not replicate the problem. It's very sporadic. BTW - There are no similarly named xrefs or blocks, so I doubt this has anything to do with reference name conflicts.
This will occur if the current file has not been saved
prior to the xref command
From Help
name=WS1a9193826455f5ff15eac7f10e40671dc3-77c5>
Path Type
name=WSc30cd3d5faa8f6d815ee671ffc2d62ae1-7ffc>Specifies whether the
saved path to the xref is the full path, a relative path, or no path. You must
save the current drawing before you can set the path type to Relative Path. For
a nested xref, a relative path always references the location of its immediate
host and not necessarily the currently open drawing.
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Does anyone else experience this in Civil 3D 2008 SP2 or later? When
attaching an external reference as an overlay WITH relative path, AutoCAD
warns that "relative path can not be assigned", and then defaults to full
path. However, if I go to the xref manager and manually change the saved path
to a relative notation (ie .\ or ..\), the path changes to relative and stays
that way with no problems. Why on earth would AutoCAD insist that it's not
possible and then allow it. This is ludicrous. I can not replicate the
problem. It's very sporadic. BTW - There are no similarly named xrefs or
blocks, so I doubt this has anything to do with reference name
conflicts.
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it means must be saved with a file name. Also, relative path doesn't work if
your xref is on another drive letter than the file your
in.
I have also had this problem if I am trying to attach a reference from our company network drive, but my drawing was saved on my hard drive.
When I save the drawing on the network, I have no problem attaching with relative path.