topic Re: Clip and save changes in xref in Civil 3D Forum

Clip and save changes in xref

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:46:47 GMT

Hello,

I have a big project with many external references ("mother drawing". I want to clip a small area and save changes into each clipped reference as if I share the project, my client gets only this small area (if he opens reference separately, he see sclipped drawing as well).

Is it possible to do it from "mother drawing", avoiding opening all of references and do the process separately?

Re: Clip and save changes in xref

user181 — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:13:20 GMT

I'm not sure I understand correctly but in your "mother" drawing containing the xrefs use the XCLIP command and select the xref you want clipped and choose "new boundary" then you have options to clip by polyline, polygonal, or rectangular. You have to repeat for each xref you want to clip.

Re: Clip and save changes in xref

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:31:40 GMT

Thanks, I'd done as you wrote, but I wanted to obtain changes in each reference. When I open reference, not as a reference, but as a normal drawing, it opens without changes.
I did the following and solved indirectly the issue:

1. Clip Xref one by one

2. Bind xrefs.
However, when I explode, it comes back to the beginning with the diffrence that I do not have xrefs, but every object is one drawing, that helps a little bit with deleting manually.

Re: Clip and save changes in xref

doben — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:32:12 GMT

"You have to repeat for each xref you want to clip."

Actually you can clip them all at once.

Re: Clip and save changes in xref

user181 — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:45:02 GMT

That would be assuming that he is just trying to create one outer boundary and not clipping specific parts of several xrefs.