Relative Path for Xrefs is FLAKEY!

[CADD_Maven]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

name=WSfacf1429558a55de8b299cffc1fb20d35c> 

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Thanks, Joe

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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.

[CADD_Maven]

Thanks, Joe. Do you mean "has not been saved" as in "must be saved with a file name and not just a new drawing from .dwt template" or do you mean "must hit save every time before xrefing anything with a relative path"? My file has been saved with a file name already, but the problem happens any how. Does this mean I need to hit save right before attaching an xref with relative path? If so, I call that a bug!



Sometimes it's good to get a consensus on these "quirks" to know if I'm just doing it wrong or if it really is a bug. Thanks for your help.









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[AdammReilly]

Generally 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.

[Anonymous]

Oops I left that part out. Thanks

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Thanks, Joe

Joseph D. Bouza, P.E.
Civil 3D 2008
LDT 2008
Win XP pro
v 2002,
sp 2
hp workstation xw4600
Intel Core Duo CPU
E7200 @2.53 GHz
3 GB
RAM
NIVDIA Quadro FX 1700 (512MB)

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bite at a time.

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Generally
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.

[kkuecker-traffic]

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.