Xrefs in General

[tjlotterhand]

This may be a dumb question but I can't seem to find the solution anywhere on the internet..

When you xref in a drawing, and there is an xref built into that xref, how do you display those xref's in the the drawing you just set up?

In other words, you have drawing A, make and xref to Drawing B, which contains an xref to Drawing C. How to i display Drawing C in drawing A?

Is it some sort of setting? I've tried overlaying versus attaching, and full path versus relative path.

Any help would be appreciated.

[vlsheehan · Accepted solution]

When referencing Drawing C into Drawing B, set the Reference Type to Attachment and not Overlay.

[dgorsman]

An attach XREF will be included whenever the host is XREF'd anywhere.  An overlay XREF will only be included in that host, not where that host is XREF'd.

A (child) XREF'd into B (host) using attach - when B is XREF'd into C, C will now have both B and A as XREFs.

A (child) XREF'd into B (host) using overlay - when B is XREF'd into C, C will now have only B as an XREF.

Use the Tree View in the XREF palette - this can be very helpful in tracking down parent/child XREF dependancies.