topic CHange from multiple page XREF in AutoCAD Electrical Forum

CHange from multiple page XREF

luke_cope — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:47:16 GMT

I currently have a part referenced as sheet 1, sheet 1, sheet1, this sheet, this sheet, this sheet. Is there any way I can reference it so it just comes up with sheet 1, this sheet. I don't need all three of the child components on sheet 1 showing as there all linked with dashed line and I don't need all three of the child components on this sheet referenced. The page being referenced once is enough

Long story short anyway to just reference a page once, rather than for each individual child. So if there's more than one child on the page it only comes up once. Not three times taking up all the room.

Re: CHange from multiple page XREF

jseefdrumr — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 18:16:35 GMT

I don't think this can be done. You'd have to be able to tell the software to either include or exclude certain children and there's just no way to do that with the out-of-the-box commands. Typical behavior is, every parent should always display the locations of all its children.

I believe your only options here are work-arounds. Something like, only link one of the children to the parent symbol. However, that specifically and other work-arounds generally can break other functionality, mainly reports and BOMs.

Re: CHange from multiple page XREF

rhesusminus — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 22:15:20 GMT

You should try to add a CONTACT attribute in the child symbols you don't want to appear, and give it a value of NULL.
This should take them away from the cross-references:

"CONTACT

Attribute that is present when the symbol is a contact. The value of this attribute is the de-energized state of the contact; NO, NC, or any text string with an embedded NO or NC such as NO-TC. Use NULL as the value of the contact attribute to exclude the contact from being included in any cross-reference text annotation."

For further reference:

AutoCAD Electrical 2024 Help | About Schematic Attributes | Autodesk

Re: CHange from multiple page XREF

jseefdrumr — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:02:10 GMT

Nice one, Trond! I forgot the contact attribute could work that way.