topic Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself in AutoCAD Forum

Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:58:49 GMT

I am currently working on a drawing and just relaized that it is somehow Xrefed into itself and I am unable to detach it. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

Regards,

S.Clancy

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:01:46 GMT

Just realized I can't spell either.

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

pendean — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:25:04 GMT

That's never an option: can you post that DWG file here?

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

rkmcswain — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:36:09 GMT

Are you saying that because you see the name of the current drawing in the External Referenced palette?

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:39:59 GMT

No, I am well aware the file name appears in the xref window. thanks.

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:40:32 GMT

No, I cannot post the drawing.

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:41:59 GMT

It may not be an option, but it happened. Thanks.

S.Clancy

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Alfred.NESWADBA — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:44:08 GMT

Hi,

when you close the drawing, then use Windows Explorer to rename the drawing (so the name is different to which the XREF is pointing to) what happens then when you now open the renamed drawing?

- alfred -

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

rkmcswain — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:44:51 GMT

Screenshots? Anything?

We can't really do much without some more information.

If not, can you revert back to a backup copy of this DWG, before this magical act occurred?

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:52:59 GMT

When renaming the drawing and then reopening the program asks me to update the location of the xref.

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:54:02 GMT

And detaching is no longer an option.

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Alfred.NESWADBA — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:01:14 GMT

Hi,

>> And detaching is no longer an option.

Why, what happens when you try it?

Have you also tried command _CLASSICXREF to detach that file?

At least create a new drawing, save it with the old/previous name and if AutoCAD asks to update the XRef-path ... show this new file. That brings you to a stable state.

- alfred -

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:03:26 GMT

Just did, did not work.

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:04:37 GMT

and sorry, when i try the drop down menu, detach is grayed out.

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Alfred.NESWADBA — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:06:31 GMT

Hi,

>> and sorry, when i try the drop down menu

The dialog of _CLASSICXREF does not have any pull down menu's. So what are you speaking about when you say "Just did"?

- alfred -

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:08:16 GMT

yes, I know. I was referring to the regular xref panel. in the classicxref panel the detach button is also grayed out.

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:13:56 GMT

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

rkmcswain — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:18:12 GMT

Have you run ._AUDIT?
Have you tried ._RECOVER?
What is DWGCHECK set to?
Was this DWG file edited in a non-Autodesk application?

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:18:19 GMT

Load the reference manager and detach....

Re: Drawing is somehow Xrefed into itself

Alfred.NESWADBA — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:20:46 GMT

Hi,

have you tried my suggestions with renaming the file?

What I see in your screenshot is that you opened the file "XRef - Building.dwg" and a XRef is placed with the same name.

So if you

rename your drawing to "Building.dwg"
create a new (empty) drawing "XRef - Building.dwg" (save and close it)
open "Building.dwg"

..now you should have the option to detacth "XRef - Building.dwg" (I hope)

- alfred -