topic Re: Xrefing borders into drawings in AutoCAD Forum

Xrefing borders into drawings

JasonStricklandGXO83 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:38:25 GMT

We’ve been having issues with putting borders into paper space on a new drawing. We use Xrefs to import borders in the drawings, that way we can use the same border on multiple paper spaces without having to edit each one individually. The project’s paper space drawings do have viewports, lines, text, and symbols, just the borders with the drawing’s information are in a different drawing. The border comes in correctly; it is just all greyed out. We have a color logo, and our revisions are a different color than black, but all of this is grey when it’s Xref in. If we bind the Xref, it corrects all of this. We just don’t like using this method, since there are too many borders to edit. We have also tried coping and pasting everything into the original Cad given us by the customer, and the border comes in correctly with the correct colors. All our drawings come from outside clients or vendors. That creates our base drawing, then we add our own symbols. Is there anything else we haven’t tried to fix the border?

Re: Xrefing borders into drawings

imadHabash — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:16:01 GMT

Hi,

>> Is there anything else we haven’t tried to fix the border?

I think we need an explanation of the meaning of the word "borders"? It is appropriate to support your explanation with an image or by including the CAD dwg here.

Re: Xrefing borders into drawings

paullimapa — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 03:26:17 GMT

perhaps it has something to do with autocad's xrefoverride setting?

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2026/ENU/?guid=GUID-131E3BBB-A28A-40BC-BDC5-A4486C1E2DBE

Re: Xrefing borders into drawings

Tomislav.Golubovic — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 04:19:00 GMT

Make sure in your PAGESETUP settings that you turn off?

Re: Xrefing borders into drawings

JasonStricklandGXO83 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:49:49 GMT

When I say "border" I mean the title block or the frame around your drawing in paper space to tell what company the drawing is from.

Re: Xrefing borders into drawings

DGCSCAD — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:54:12 GMT

Set XDWGFADECTL to zero (0).

Re: Xrefing borders into drawings

JasonStricklandGXO83 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:49:49 GMT

This solved the problem. Thank you.

Is this a setting that comes from previous people who had worked on the drawing? Maybe a default setting on the drawing when it was created and if no one regularly uses something related to that it isn't noticed?

Re: Xrefing borders into drawings

paullimapa — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:53:41 GMT

Someone may have set that value on either the original template used to create this dwg or thereafter. But glad that solved the problem…cheers!!!

Re: Xrefing borders into drawings

cadffm — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:59:46 GMT

Hi,

>>"Is this a setting that comes from previous people who had worked on the drawing?"

If you never changed it and saved the drawing file, yes.

>>"Maybe a default setting on the drawing when it was created and if no one regularly uses something related to that it isn't noticed?"

Of course,

if you copy a file or used a template to create a new file - the file keeps all settings.

Without a template or without a custom change, the setting is 0