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Is this possible? Creating details via a double XREF

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 01:52:28 GMT

Hello,

So here's my conundrum. I'm attempting to create details from an original drawing that has been XREF into a second drawing four times. Each of those XREF's are then XCLIP on different parts of the original drawing to create boundaries for the details. I saved the second drawing, then XREF that drawing into the original drawing.

I can XREF the second drawing into the first one but inside the XCLIP boundaries the drawing doesn't appear.

Thanks for reading,

Gary

Re: Is this possible? Creating details via a double XREF

RobDraw — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:01:21 GMT

It sounds like you are creating a circular reference. AutoCAD doesn't like that.

Re: Is this possible? Creating details via a double XREF

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 13:14:01 GMT

I see. I guess that would explain it. I'd be nice if that type of feature could work on Autocad but I'm sure it gets complicated. Thanks for the help.

Re: Is this possible? Creating details via a double XREF

RobDraw — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:24:07 GMT

It might be possible if you set the XREFs to overlay.