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Bind insert single layer

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:33:14 GMT

Good morning all,

I'm running AutoCAD 2014.

I have a drawing which xrefs a number of other DWGs.

What i'm wanting to do is bind and insert just a single layer from each of the xrefs. Is there a rapid way to do this?

I'm aware that I could bind and insert all of the xrefs and delete off the information i'm not interested in, however, the xrefs are huge and contain an enormous amount of info and i'm trying to streamline my processes.

Thanks in advance,

James

Re: Bind insert single layer

imadHabash — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:41:25 GMT

Good Morninig,

use NCOPY direct to xref attached and select your need object layer.

Regards,

Re: Bind insert single layer

3wood — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:52:28 GMT

You can try EXPLODEALL.

Settings as below:

Re: Bind insert single layer

jggerth — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:58:06 GMT

Option A, use NCOPY and manually pick all the objects n the xref layer you want to bring in. Don't miss any.

Option B, XOpen the Xref, Use LAYISO to isolate the layer you want, then WBLOCK out everything on the layer. Close the Open XREF, and Insert the fresh Wblock.

Option C, use Map3d and Query in all the objects on the layer.

Re: Bind insert single layer

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:39:11 GMT

@jggerth wrote:

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Option B, XOpen the Xref, Use LAYISO to isolate the layer you want, then WBLOCK out everything on the layer. Close the Open XREF, and Insert the fresh Wblock.

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A variant on that: Open the Xref in REFEDIT, isolate the Layer, Copy everything on it, Remove the copies from the working set, and close the Refediting without saving changes, and the copies will be in your current drawing. It's an approach that avoids the creation of an additional external drawing file. However, it leaves you with all that content as separate objects in the current drawing, not as one Block, if that matters.

In a quick test, I had trouble doing this by just copying in place so that the extracted things would already be in the same place in the current drawing. If I ask it to remove from the working set the Previous selection [so I don't need to pick all the copies that are overlaid on the originals, expecting that the originals will then go into the current drawing], I end up with nothing transferred. But if I Copy things to a different place by some round-figures distance, I can then Remove them from the working set and it works, and then Move them back the same distance in the opposite direction. Or if I Copy them in place, and in the remove-from-the-working-set operation I window the whole area again [getting both the previous selection and the copies of it] and then use the Remove option in that selection to take the Previous selection out of what I'm removing from the working set, it works.

Re: Bind insert single layer

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:48:54 GMT

I can't find a way to ncopy an entire layer, but you could (using LISP and script) select the desired layer in each file, and paste to another drawing.

If you just want information from the layer (ie block position/attributes) then try DataExtraction. You could also do this for lines and other simple objects, then use LISP to draw the objects back in