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IT'S POSSIBLE TO EDIT A XREF WITHOUT CHANGING THE OTHERS COPIES OF THE X-REF

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:47:41 GMT

Hello,

I'm working a file with one x-ref copied 5 times in the same model. Would anyone know if it is possible to edit one of the copies without changing the others?

Like a layout viewport but in model, I suppose.

Example: 4 copies of the x-ref have axes in 1/50 scale and the other should have axes in 1/100 scale.

Thanks

Re: IT'S POSSIBLE TO EDIT A XREF WITHOUT CHANGING THE OTHERS COPIES OF THE X-REF

dbroad — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:08:36 GMT

Edits that are unique to each copy: move, rotate, scale, mirror, change layer properties, and if xref objects on layer 0 and bylayer (color, lineype, plotstyle, etc.) Unequal scale factors can be applied to the xref attachments but I would recommend no annotations in the xref if that is done.

Edits that are common: Unloading, detaching, and edits done in the xref itself (either by opening or by reference editing). If you want different xref internals for each copy, its best to work on separate files by copying and editing and attaching separately. For example, in my casework sections, I usually have a version with annotations and dimensions and another without. In that case its easier to delete the annotation layers and save a version of the xref without them.

Re: IT'S POSSIBLE TO EDIT A XREF WITHOUT CHANGING THE OTHERS COPIES OF THE X-REF

imadHabash — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:18:19 GMT

Hi,

>> Would anyone know if it is possible to edit one of the copies without changing the others? <<

since you treat with xref attached to your drawing then you should know that any changes happened to xref will effect all the other copied ones.

>> 4 copies of the x-ref have axes in 1/50 scale and the other should have axes in 1/100 scale. <<

you have here two options for that:

make two CAD files as an xrefs to attache one as 1/100 and the other 1/50.
prepare your axes as Annotative objects that will serve you in different scales.(Recommended)

Good Luck...

Re: IT'S POSSIBLE TO EDIT A XREF WITHOUT CHANGING THE OTHERS COPIES OF THE X-REF

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:46:57 GMT

Thanks for the quick answer.

In matter of fact, we don't use annotative scales because the software it's not pure Autocad, but a built-in. Advance Concrete. This software use in some cases a type of built-in annotative information and if we mix both, well we will not a very good result.

In my work we use for all the annotations one style for each scale. And of course for the x-refs, like you had wrote, we use different types of xref for the different types of scales when we speak about axes.

Re: IT'S POSSIBLE TO EDIT A XREF WITHOUT CHANGING THE OTHERS COPIES OF THE X-REF

Billy5UNA8 — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:29:27 GMT

MULTIPLE XREFS IN ONE FILE - MAKE UNIQUE...

IMPORT XREF(A) > LOCATE REFERENCE NAME > CHANGE NAME...

IMPORT XREF(A), AGAIN > RENAME...

THE SAME XREF IS NOW UNIQUE AND CAN BE MANIPULATED IN THE SAME FILE WITHOUT CHANGING ORIGINAL FILE OR HAVING MULTIPLE FILES OF THE SAME LINEWORK AND XREF-ing EACH INTO A SINGLE FILE.