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Text style In-place of Xref

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 09:51:38 GMT

Dear folks,

I have a drawing with an Xref. The Xref contains a lot of text with a certain text-style 'A'. I wanne change the style in the drawing with a style 'B' but without changing it in the original Xref. When i open the Xref in-place i can change the style from A to B but when I close and save the Xref in-place it doesn't show style B in the drawing. When i open the Xref in-place again, it has style B.

What am i doing wrong? Or how can I change the text-style from an Xref in a drawing without changing the Xref its original style?

I have no permission from my employer to upload the file so I explained as clear as possible.

RE: Text style In-place of Xref

Otto — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 09:54:04 GMT

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Re: Text style In-place of Xref

RobDraw — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:19:23 GMT

What you are doing will change the XREF file. You said that you did not want to do that. I would save a copy of the original and make any necessary changes to a separate XREF file.

Did you reload the XREF after saving?

Re: Text style In-place of Xref

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:35:03 GMT

Reloaded it, didn't work. Even when I detached it and attached it again it showed the same style A but when opening it shows style B.

Re: Text style In-place of Xref

jggerth — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:37:49 GMT

While there are overrides for display of layers, there are no over rides for textstyles. Your best bet will be to follow RodDraw's advice -- and save the original file, and modify the copy to use as your reference file.

Re: Text style In-place of Xref

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 13:05:42 GMT

Ok will do that. Thanks to Both!