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    <title>tema Re: Xref Question en AutoCAD Forum</title>
    <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/xref-question/m-p/8599937#M968400</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;U&gt;SOLUTION-1&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: medium; color: inherit; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Issue:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;DIV id="issue" class="adskkb_issues"&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;You have a drawing called A that contains several layers. You added drawing A to drawing B as an attached xref and then turned off/changed color/assigned a lineweight/etc. for some of the xref-dependent layers (from drawing A). When you added drawing B to drawing C as an xref, the xref-dependent layer properties that you had modified in drawing B were not carried through to drawing C.&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;You want the properties of the layers to be maintained when you use nested xrefs.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV id="solution" class="adskkb_solution"&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Solution:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;To maintain the status of layer properties when using nested xrefs, you need to&amp;nbsp;export the layer settings in addition to the xref.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;To export layer settings&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;OL start="1"&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;At the command prompt, enter&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;LAYERSTATE&lt;/STRONG&gt;.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;In the Layer States Manager, create a new layer state to capture the current properties for all the layers.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Click 'Close'&amp;nbsp;to exit the dialog box.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/OL&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Additionally, you can export all saved layer states to a separate layer state (.las) file, using the 'Export' button&amp;nbsp;within the Layer States Manager.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;To restore layer settings in another file&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;OL start="1"&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;At the command prompt, enter&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;LAYERSTATE&lt;/STRONG&gt;.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;In the Layer States Manager, click the 'Import' button.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Be sure 'Files of type:' is set for DWG and then browse to the DWG file which contains the layer state you wish to import, then click 'Open'.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Alternately, if you exported a layer state (.las) file, change the 'Files of type:' setting at the bottom of the dialog to LAS, browse to the .las file created with the export process, then click 'Open'.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;With the layer state you want highlighted, click the Restore button.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Click 'Close' to exit the Layer States Manager.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/OL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Reference :&amp;nbsp;&lt;A title="https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Maintaining-layer-status-when-using-nested-xrefs.html" href="https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Maintaining-layer-status-when-using-nested-xrefs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Maintaining-layer-status-when-using-nested-xrefs.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;U&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;SOLUTION-2&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: medium; color: inherit; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Issue:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;DIV id="issue" class="adskkb_issues"&gt;
&lt;DIV id="section2"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Nested xrefs do not reflect Visretain settings.&amp;nbsp;For example:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;OL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;You create Drawing A, which contains a number of layers.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;You&amp;nbsp;create Drawing B into which you xref Drawing A.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;You turn off some of the layers&amp;nbsp;that were imported with Drawing A.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;You set the VISRETAIN system variable to 1.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;You&amp;nbsp;create Drawing C into which you xref Drawing B.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/OL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Note that the layers you turned off in Drawing B reappear in Drawing C.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV id="solution" class="adskkb_solution"&gt;
&lt;DIV id="section3"&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Solution&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="3" color="#000000"&gt;VISRETAIN retains the settings in the current drawing but not those in the xref. In the case of nested xrefs, the original settings are displayed, so each time the nested xref is inserted into a new file, you have to reset the VISRETAIN to 1.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;To&amp;nbsp;&lt;FONT color="#000000"&gt;work around this issue, use the XREF&amp;nbsp;command Bind option rather than the Insert option when binding the nested&amp;nbsp;xrefs into the parent drawings.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;/DIV&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2019 06:25:38 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>S.Faris</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2019-02-16T06:25:38Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Xref Question</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/xref-question/m-p/8599714#M968379</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;When I attach multiple xrefs to a drawing it never holds the layers I turned off when I attach the main drawing to another drawing. Help.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 23:21:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/xref-question/m-p/8599714#M968379</guid>
      <dc:creator>cmismith</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-02-15T23:21:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Xref Question</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/xref-question/m-p/8599937#M968400</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;U&gt;SOLUTION-1&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: medium; color: inherit; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Issue:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;DIV id="issue" class="adskkb_issues"&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;You have a drawing called A that contains several layers. You added drawing A to drawing B as an attached xref and then turned off/changed color/assigned a lineweight/etc. for some of the xref-dependent layers (from drawing A). When you added drawing B to drawing C as an xref, the xref-dependent layer properties that you had modified in drawing B were not carried through to drawing C.&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;You want the properties of the layers to be maintained when you use nested xrefs.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV id="solution" class="adskkb_solution"&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Solution:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;To maintain the status of layer properties when using nested xrefs, you need to&amp;nbsp;export the layer settings in addition to the xref.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;To export layer settings&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;OL start="1"&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;At the command prompt, enter&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;LAYERSTATE&lt;/STRONG&gt;.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;In the Layer States Manager, create a new layer state to capture the current properties for all the layers.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Click 'Close'&amp;nbsp;to exit the dialog box.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/OL&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Additionally, you can export all saved layer states to a separate layer state (.las) file, using the 'Export' button&amp;nbsp;within the Layer States Manager.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;To restore layer settings in another file&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;OL start="1"&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;At the command prompt, enter&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;LAYERSTATE&lt;/STRONG&gt;.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;In the Layer States Manager, click the 'Import' button.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Be sure 'Files of type:' is set for DWG and then browse to the DWG file which contains the layer state you wish to import, then click 'Open'.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Alternately, if you exported a layer state (.las) file, change the 'Files of type:' setting at the bottom of the dialog to LAS, browse to the .las file created with the export process, then click 'Open'.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;With the layer state you want highlighted, click the Restore button.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Click 'Close' to exit the Layer States Manager.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/OL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Reference :&amp;nbsp;&lt;A title="https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Maintaining-layer-status-when-using-nested-xrefs.html" href="https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Maintaining-layer-status-when-using-nested-xrefs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Maintaining-layer-status-when-using-nested-xrefs.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;U&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;SOLUTION-2&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: medium; color: inherit; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Issue:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;DIV id="issue" class="adskkb_issues"&gt;
&lt;DIV id="section2"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Nested xrefs do not reflect Visretain settings.&amp;nbsp;For example:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;OL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;You create Drawing A, which contains a number of layers.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;You&amp;nbsp;create Drawing B into which you xref Drawing A.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;You turn off some of the layers&amp;nbsp;that were imported with Drawing A.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;You set the VISRETAIN system variable to 1.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;You&amp;nbsp;create Drawing C into which you xref Drawing B.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/OL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Note that the layers you turned off in Drawing B reappear in Drawing C.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV id="solution" class="adskkb_solution"&gt;
&lt;DIV id="section3"&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;Solution&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="3" color="#000000"&gt;VISRETAIN retains the settings in the current drawing but not those in the xref. In the case of nested xrefs, the original settings are displayed, so each time the nested xref is inserted into a new file, you have to reset the VISRETAIN to 1.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;To&amp;nbsp;&lt;FONT color="#000000"&gt;work around this issue, use the XREF&amp;nbsp;command Bind option rather than the Insert option when binding the nested&amp;nbsp;xrefs into the parent drawings.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;/DIV&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2019 06:25:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/xref-question/m-p/8599937#M968400</guid>
      <dc:creator>S.Faris</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-02-16T06:25:38Z</dc:date>
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