topic Re: How can I query the location of an already inserted XREF? in AutoCAD Forum

How can I query the location of an already inserted XREF?

Totec_MW — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:45:39 GMT

I have a drawing that has a couple of coordination models (NWDs) inserted as XREFs. The 0,0,0 origin of these are not the same as my drawing 0,0,0 and they were relocated during the insertion step. I now need to add another NWD which has the same origin as the others and would like it to align with them. Unfortunately I do not know what the values were when the previous NWDs were inserted. The problem with NWDs is that I can't simply pick a point (end, mid, centre etc. etc.) to measure from or use as a reference point, meaning I can't accurately move the NWD after it has been inserted. Is there a way I can query the existing NWD XREFs to find out what the following values need to be for the new NWD to match the existing ones...

Thanks in advance for any guidance you may be able to offer.

Re: How can I query the location of an already inserted XREF?

S.Faris — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:54:14 GMT

Select the existing XREF and check the properties, Insertion points are under Geometry in Properties

Re: How can I query the location of an already inserted XREF?

Totec_MW — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:35:33 GMT

Thank you S.Faris, I really should've thought to check the properties panel, but clearly I didn't!

Your help is much appreciated.

Re: How can I query the location of an already inserted XREF?

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:52:15 GMT

Can't you, when XREFing subsequent ones, simply Osnap to the INSertion point of the earlier one? Or if a subsequent ones is already Xref'd in the wrong place, just select it, grab its insertion-point grip, and drag it to the Osnapped INSertion point of another? You shouldn't need to extract the insertion point of one of them, and if any of its coordinates are at some oddball decimal or fractional value that doesn't all show [e.g. more decimal places than are displayed in the Properties, or fraction rounded off], you'd get the new one in not quite the right place if you do something like type in what you see in Properties.