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XREF DETACH PROBLEM

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 05:22:39 GMT

dear all i have this drawing in which i try to delete one xref which is showing multiple reference

i try my best but is there any short way to detach that one

suggest me

Re: XREF DETACH PROBLEM

imadHabash — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 07:19:17 GMT

Hi,

To delete and get rid of this annoying thing you have to erase(delete) a sentence exist in your drawing { Xref .\xref\L-1 - Structural.dwg } . this sentence usually appear when you erase xrefs not detach it. kindly see attached

So ... erase it then purge your drawing and every thing will going fine. 🙂

Good Luck..

Re: XREF DETACH PROBLEM

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:19:39 GMT

boss will you tell me how u find this text in fresh drawing i searching this text but not get how you got this text will u tell me

Re: XREF DETACH PROBLEM

dbroad — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:54:41 GMT

The problem is that the external reference is not actually "text". It just appears as text, usually very small, when the xref is not found.

Apparently you nested an external reference inside the definition of an annoymous block named

A$C30E96510

I assume you followed the instructions by @imadHabash which work well but that you have this problem in multiple drawings.

The problem is finding the references since the xref itself cannot be found since it is nested inside an anoymous block.

Good rule: Never nest an xref inside a block in the current drawing. It probably happened with you used the command pasteblock rather than just paste. Don't use pasteblock when copy/pasting an xref from one drawing to another.

A non-programmatic solution would be to bedit your anonymous blocks (those whose names look garbled like A$C...). Use qselect to find the nested external reference. Once selected, delete it. You must delete it from the block definition or delete all insertions of the anonymous block and then purge it.

To avoid the problem in the future don't pasteblock with xref objects.