xref files not showing up in all viewports in civil 3d 2011.

[gregjmoore]

I attach an xref to a drawing, plan profile, and align the parts of the xref in each viewport the way I want them to appear.

The host drawing is a generic plan profile sheet border. The viewports are set to the same scale same annotative scale, and are undefined, not a plan or profile viewport. I save the drawing and get out of cad all together. I restart cad and open the drawing. The plan view viewport is visible and the xrefs are also. In the profile viewport nothing is visible or only one line is visible. Items in the view port are viewable, not frozen in the viewport, not turned of. The annotative scale is exactly the same for all viewports as is the xref drawing.I am xrefing a civil 3d 2011 aliment and profile drawing into these sheets. The only way to see the xref in the view ports is to detach and reattach the xref. To make things worse this does not happen to all drawings that are using the border that I used to create this drawing set.

[tcorey]

This is a long shot, but a possibility. What's the value of MAXACTVP? How many viewports do you have?

Another possibility: Check the properties of each viewport and be sure Visual Style is 2D Wireframe and Shade Plot is As Displayed.

[Joe-Bouza]

Is it possible the drawing files being used are LDT legacy? I've experienced blank xrefs that were once LDT files

[wfberry]

I would never use an LDT file unless I inserted it into my template file first.

AND that's the truth!

Bill