Change or update cross reference style

[TRLitsey]

I have two schematics of similar machines.  I want to use the half of the drawings from one machine and half the drawing from the other machine.  The cross reference symbols are different styles.  One uses the ‘xx-yy’ format and the other uses a hex symbol with over/under numbering.  Is there a quick way to change the style from one to the other?  Thank you

[jalger]

Hi TRLitsey,

Without seeing exactly what your trying to do I would suggest the "Swap/Update block" Command.

It should let you swap out one of the styles with little effort. ( just pick the style you want, and run the replace project wide on the style you want to remove.)

If you need any help running the Command just ask,

Regards,

James

[dougmcalexander]

Once you add all the drawings to the same project, you can set the cross-reference style in project properties. You must then apply project defaults to all drawings in the project, using shift to select the drawings and right click to fly out the option to apply project defaults. Then perform a cross reference update project wide. Maybe I am misinterpreting your question?

[drathak]

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@dougmcalexander wrote:
Once you add all the drawings to the same project, you can set the cross-reference style in project properties. You must then apply project defaults to all drawings in the project, using shift to select the drawings and right click to fly out the option to apply project defaults. Then perform a cross reference update project wide. Maybe I am misinterpreting your question?

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With the drawings coming from two different projects originally, will the cross references actually find each other?  I guess if all the signal codes match they might.  Interesting situation.

[dougmcalexander · Accepted solution]

If source and destination codes match, they should connect.  You will probably need to run the Update Signal References utility to sync them.

If the tags match between parent and child the cross references should function.  But you should run Update Crossreferences.  Project-wide update/retag might help.